MARK ZUCKERBERG
“After Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan announced their plan to donate
nearly all of their Facebook stock to charitable causes, the initial laudatory
coverage was followed by a series of stories that raised many important
questions about their decision, - including its implications for avoiding –
taxes, the large sums it would
potentially cost the US government, and the huge amount of power it would place
in the hands of two people. As John Cassidy
observed in The New Yorker, ‘The more money billionaires give to their
charitable foundations, which in most cases remain under their personal
control, the more influence they will accumulate.’"
control, the more influence they will accumulate.’"
Massing, Michael, ‘How to Cover the One Percent,’ The New
York Review, January 14, 2016, pp: 74-76.