If you run out of ideas, you start to help the world in the easiest way - by giv...

Steko · on Oct 6, 2011

Well put.

I'll add that what's even better then giving away your money is not taking too much in the first place.

Steve Jobs was a multi-billionaire but, as Apple's stock laps the field, it bears noting that Steve's billions are a fraction of what others in similar positions are worth.

2muchcoffeeman · on Oct 6, 2011

http://www.forbes.com/wealth/billionaires/list?page=2

Steve Jobs is 110. It's really quite reasonable if you put it into context.

JonoW · on Oct 6, 2011

Wait a minute, are you really putting a negative spin on someone giving away their billions to charity?

sid0 · on Oct 6, 2011

They're Apple fanboys, what do you expect. Next they'll start quoting Ayn Rand.

Thankfully Steve himself had far superior cognitive capacity.

stumm · on Oct 6, 2011

Is that supposed to be a jab at Bill Gates?

LaGrange · on Oct 6, 2011

Not necessarily. Bill Gates didn't just start giving money away, he started spending it in a fairly controlled manner, trying to accomplish well defined goals.

Maybe Bill Gates ran out of ideas how to help using computers, though.

saraid216 · on Oct 6, 2011

Doing both: apparently hard.