"Hearing MacKenzie giving away 4B of her 60B is not really impressive because you can live pretty nice with even 1B."
His story was fine as it is. Why did he feel the need to compare himself against MacKenzie?
The other comments seemed more like curiosity than anything else.
I thought about this and in hindsight I think I was unhappy because it seemed to me that billionaires get glorified alot by the media.
I'm sure many billionares are only doing it for the PR - but if they want to give away $4B for good PR then isn't that a still a benefit to society?
I'm not sure. Growing up, I'm only occupied by achieving "success" and it was the only thing that mattered. "I'll help people when I'm a billionaire" is what I used to tell myself for years. I distinctly remember a few people who could have really used a friend, but I didn't have time for them.
I could've been a better person growing up and I blame part of my "assholeness" on the glorification of billionaires.