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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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