04 july 2023
With enough money, eventually you gain the magical ability of speaking reality into existence. A billionaire could pick up the phone at any time and call their personal assistant.
"Hi, I'd like to evaluate and fund 500 medical goFundMes. Put out an ad for director of helping out the poors. They will be responsible for evaluating and funding crowd sourcing pages put out by people in desperate medical situations".
The assistant will be puzzled of course. This will be the first time their boss deigned to think about anyone but themselves, but depending on how much of a micromanager the boss is, 500 people's lives were magically saved by a short conversation and little else.
For a billionaire, that sort of spell could be cast at will with no change to their standard of living. They could do that and STILL live like Caligula. Hell, the goodwill generated by such an act would probably give them a little hit of dopamine like when their employees clap like seals for them at the annual conference.
Yet they choose not. Being generous, they're not very clever people.