“I don’t think that having great wealth in itself is fundamentally immoral. It depends what you do with it. If, let’s say, you take someone like Warren Buffett—if he was clearsighted about the fact that he was going to use this wealth for good, as he is doing by donating it to the Gates Foundation, a…”— Peter Singer, theconcourse.deadspin.comTagged: Money, Wealth, Capitalism, Warren Buffet
“When I give talks, people often stand up and say ‘The problem is poverty is global capitalism, that’s what we need to change. Why are you talking about these band-aid solutions?’ I always ask them, how do we actually do that? How do we actually get rid of global capitalism? Nobody’s given me even ha…”— Peter Singer, theconcourse.deadspin.comTagged: San Francisco, Wealth, Money, Technology
“The tech millionaires have no flair, but they will live forever.”— Hamilton Nolan, theconcourse.deadspin.comTagged: San Francisco, Wealth, Money, Technology