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I don't really follow the 'projects' of the super rich. I suspect they do them for various reasons, some presumably a vainglorious legacy polishing (Gates, Buffet), some probably with more dubious reasons (Bezos).
I guess it's better that their some fraction of their wealth stockpile is spent than not, but it's the arbitrary direction of it. The choice of the direction of funding should be made in a more democratic manner rather - or 'tax' if you will.
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Quite interesting breakdown of the idea of 'directing' that money by early/mid 20th century billionaires and how we've arrived where we are today in Dark Money
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His wealth can fluctuate by more than that in a day.It's also, to a large amount, paper wealth - Amazon stock. If he times it right, it's an interesting accounting game with no negative effect on him that he'll notice. Potential wealth turned into real cash, funding its own capital gains tax levy while also, because charity donation, reducing the tax he does have to pay on his official Amazon salary and any other stock trading and investing he does. His salary, by the way, has been fixed at $81K for the last two decades, not because he's a modest man but because his effective wealth dwarfs that by so much that it's not important.
Bezos and his small peer group have taken us back to the robber baron era of the 19th century. Those guys also liked to build the occasional hospital, while steamrollering over a poverty-stricken workforce that vastly outnumbered the number of people their "benevolence" could help.
He's doing this for him, for his own defence, and he can easily afford it. He can't do it every day or every year, but he doesn't have to. He already got what he wanted from you.