The caricature of the 1%
 

On Wednesday, July 4, 2012 11:40:32 PM UTC-4, Flint wrote:

That's fine. It's good they made something worthwhile but what is fair
compensation for that? Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. Did he
get billions for it? No, but was that fine? Didn't he get gyped
according to you? The Google guys got too much money. They can never
use it in their lives and they won't. Tons of it will go to waste
instead of being used productively or for those who really need it.

Really? Just where do you think they keep all their money? Private
vaults or something?


I care because I believe there is a point where there is a problem
with
having too much.




I ran across some information on how one of the Google founders is wasting their money. Sure enough they are just wasting money as Hawke knew they would.


“If there’s ever to be progress in the discovery of the fundamentals that lead to Alzheimer’s, this is the way to do it,” said Aubrey Milunsky, director of the Boston University Center for Human Genetics, which isn’t involved in the research.

The grants are split evenly from the Alzheimer’s Association, a nonprofit health group focused on the care and treatment of people with the disease, and the nonprofit Brin Wojcicki Foundation, a charitable organization created by 23andMe Inc. co-founder Anne Wojcicki and her husband Sergey Brin, co-founder of Mountain View, California-based Google Inc.

Dan