Billionaire Ken Griffin just donated to & got naming rights to Harvard GSAS

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Anonymous wrote:Gross, $300M is more than the entire endowment at a lot of colleges. He could’ve donated that to, say, Bunker Hill Community College or UMass Boston and made a difference in people’s lives.

You realize he has also donated a lot to several science museums as well as supported the arts? That's the thing about earning money, you get to spend it how you see fit.

Of course. The Sacklers. Huge support to the arts. And some of those dumb dumb institutions refused to take the money or gave it back. I mean so what if many people overdosed and are six feet under and left a wake of destroyed families. They could have had more money. .foolish institutions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gross, $300M is more than the entire endowment at a lot of colleges. He could’ve donated that to, say, Bunker Hill Community College or UMass Boston and made a difference in people’s lives.

You realize he has also donated a lot to several science museums as well as supported the arts? That's the thing about earning money, you get to spend it how you see fit.

Of course. The Sacklers. Huge support to the arts. And some of those dumb dumb institutions refused to take the money or gave it back. I mean so what if many people overdosed and are six feet under and left a wake of destroyed families. They could have had more money. .foolish institutions.

Institutions should absolutely vet who they are taking $ from and have language in place that enables them to take a name down and give $ back, but not all rich people are sociopaths just vain. The Sacklers were also pretty wily about how their donations were structured with most of the actual $ coming on the backend but getting credit for them upfront.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:He went there, why shouldn’t he donate? Who complains about a school getting donation. You are all idiots.

I don’t think most students or slums would appreciate him influencing the school, which was exactly why he donated.

I am happy