“We’re not running out of rich people,” Bill Gates recently told David Wallace-Wells of the New York Times Magazine in an interview about why he was deciding to close the doors of his foundation in 20 years. More than any other sentiment, it is this one that seems largely missing in the world of philanthropy today.
Gates was explaining why he decided to sunset the foundation earlier than originally planned. “The idea that I could write some set of goals that somebody would either honestly try to interpret or misinterpret 50 years from now — that’s kind of silly.” Gates cited the development of artificial intelligence, among other reasons, for why “the world is going to change very dramatically” in ways he cannot predict.
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