Super Rich Vow to Share Wealth

Well, what makes sense is that people should be able to do what they want with their]/i] money.

If you would like to see the super rich sponsor contests, you could try to appeal directly to them. I know that I (as well as most of us) have no authority to dictate what others do with their charity.

Best of luck.

Bill Gates has ordered the other billionaires to give away their money as he claims to have done with some of his.

The "contest" concept makes sense, but in reverse. Gates should give money back to Windows users who correctly figure out how to get his stuff to work (virus free). Then the end users will have something left to give to the charity of their choice.

I agree completly. It's like buying a car that has 25 parts missing, but you don't know which 25 they are.

I guess people are happy buying that "car" and are just thankful they have so much to complain about.

Ayn, Bill Rand to the bank.

They could start exercise it before they die. Why wait? Now they are in control of where they spend. After they pass away, others will decide.

Okay, the skeptic/cynic in me is wondering how many of these super-rich are simply doing this to reduce the inheritance tax their survivors will have to pay* -- and wondering how many of these charities are run by those offspring.

*Which is actually ok by me, since I think 'death taxes' should be abolished; just another way for the politicians to grab some money they don't deserve.