Gen Xer, we're mostly cool. Still some ass hats but most of us try to be cool, do the right things

I'm too lazy to read, but they probably didn't grow up in this wealth they ran into it later and didn't hold on to it long enough to be corrupted.

In the military there were two kinds of officers: the ones moved from enlisted to officer through schooling and hard work and the ones who started their career in ROTC.

The ones who came up from nothing were always the first to help out the workers and rarely pulled rank. They wanted the entire unit to don well and were not above getting dirty. They were also the most highly respected for it.

The worst and most selfish officers were the ones who came out of ROTC as officers and were essentially police, but with rank only. They sucked and no one liked them and any respect they received was only due to their rank, never to them.

I feel humility and the actual act of working your way to the top is the only way to maintain a connection to your humanity. So many of the current ultra wealthy come from money, didn't work for it, and don't know how to be a human being as a result of it. The last time that kind of generational-wealth was flaunted while the masses starved and suffered, it was in France, and there were a lot of removed heads. The only thing that saved the rich during the Great Depression was the fact there were a lot of them that lost everything as well. Almost everyone was in the same boat.

Those at the top will learn, soon enough, that they only maintain their wealth through the grace of those near the bottom. Squeeze too hard and their whole world will come down around them.

Better than most but at the end of the day it would have been nice to give that money to the people that built the company he sold for $1.6B.

I would think there’s a lot of talented people that worked hard to build the value of that company such that he could sell it for a huge amount of money.

Definitely better than buying a yacht, but he still got to decide what to do with the value created by others.

AppNexus employs 1000 people across 5 continents. If the ceo has an extra $1.5B kicking around he could have given every person that helped build AppNexus $1.5M, which is a truly life changing amount of money for your average person.

Also see Chuck Feeney