When he was younger, maybe people thought he was being selfish, or maybe people looked at how much his software helped people be more productive.

Now his goal is to give away virtually all his wealth, but it seems like he is not in the news as much as when he was getting rich.

He is doing a lot to improve the campsite.

https://www.gatesnotes.com/n20-years-to-give-away-virtually-all-my-wealth


"One of the best things I read was an 1889 essay by Andrew Carnegie called The Gospel of Wealth. It makes the case that the wealthy have a responsibility to return their resources to society, a radical idea at the time that laid the groundwork for philanthropy as we know it today.

In the essay’s most famous line, Carnegie argues that “the man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.” I have spent a lot of time thinking about that quote lately. People will say a lot of things about me when I die, but I am determined that "he died rich" will not be one of them. There are too many urgent problems to solve for me to hold onto resources that could be used to help people."