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Originally Posted by Timboli
[...] It's not like J.K. Rowling and the publisher wouldn't have made a killing anyway from profit. How can any reasonable person view it as anything but greed? [...]
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And yet when you read about the amounts that people like J.K. Rowling and Bill Gates donate to charity, you have to wonder: how many of those dollars would have made it to charity if they had not been accumulated in such excess in the first place? I think it is an interesting question. Certainly their work has generated incomes for thousands of other people.
There are some very rich people out there that spend their money on buying political position, those you might make an argument for greed. Big business often speaks of how they benefit the community via the trickle-down effect, but with Rowling and Gates it has been much more than a trickle; greed is not a word I'd use with either of them.