Food for thought: Jeff Bezos and Charity

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

Jeff Bezos gives 0.0906% of his income to charity.
If you work full-time making $25 per hour, and give $20 to a single charity twice a year, you are more philanthropic than the richest man on planet Earth.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

Yeah then you get 10,000 more people saying the same thing and suddenly your entire income has been remitted.

[Zoinksberg]

Percentages are all fine and good, but the bottom line is that $145 million is more than any of us will ever give to charity. So not quite sure what you are trying to say here.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

Percentages are all fine and good, but the bottom line is that $145 million is more than any of us will ever give to charity. So not quite sure what you are trying to say here.

Well yes, percentages are a good means of indicating negligible proportions of something, whether well endowed or otherwise, even if they don't constitute a formal obligation to tribute them.

[Robovski]

He is under no obligation to give penny number one. I think it is decent of him to give some of what is his to charity.