I have no idea how much retirement would cost (with buffer for needing care in advanced age since we have no children), so I pulled a number out of my ass with a lot of buffer
If invested and it grows, that’s just more I can give away later. Again with the childless thing, anything we had left would go to charitable causes
50 mil is 5% of a billion dollars so ~95% of what I got would be moved to decent causes from the get-go
Perfect is the enemy of good and I never claimed to have some moral highground to begin with. Doing (at least in my opinion) good things with 95% of the money given to me certainly is better than 0% of it.
It cracks me up that people are like “Hoarding a billion dollars is just morally wrong, so I’ll hoard $50 million instead and be a good person.”
Pick a lane, people. Hoard the wealth or don’t hoard the wealth, but stop feeling guilty about an imaginary scenario.
That’s two orders of magnitude different. It’s like a dollar versus a hundred dollars. That doesn’t sound hypocritical at all.
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