Larry Page: I would rather give my billions to Elon Musk rather than charity

Larry Page: I would rather give my billions to Elon Musk rather than charity(businessinsider.in)

16 points by AxisOfEval 11 years ago | 10 comments

Recoil42 11 years ago |

> "Page even went as far as suggesting that everyone give their money to a corporation that was trying to accomplish big stuff."

We call that investing.

vixen99 11 years ago | |

I thought he talked about giving money not buying shares. Any gift at all can be thought as an investment in the broader sense of the word so beloved of governments spending taxpayers' money.

ulfw 11 years ago |

And that's why I have more respect for Bill Gates than for Larry Page. Sorry.

norswap 11 years ago | |

I think what underlies Page's thoughts is that he thinks Musk is more effective than most charity. He sees charity as a sink that will provide no long term improvement of the human condition. Honestly, it's hard to disagree.

Except for Bill Gates, precisely. His fight against Malaria has been tremendously successful. Would Page object giving his money to Bill Gates? I don't know, I hope he wouldn't.

ulfw 11 years ago | | |

Well, Bill Gates seems to want to fight humanity's problems of today - AIDS, Malaria, Poverty. Elon/Larry want to go to Mars and build vacuum-tube trains from SF to LA. One is a real need, one is Science-Fiction. Obviously the latter is more 'fun'/nerdy.

joelrunyon 11 years ago |

This is from March...

gus_massa 11 years ago | |

March discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7437940 (640 points, 278 days ago, 434 comments) (It was a repost in slate of the businessinsider note.)