Michael Wray

A member of the Philip Greenspun's Homepage community since April 9, 2004

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April 9, 2004, on How to Become As Rich As Bill Gates:
Let me start by saying that I'm anti-Gates. However, I don't envy him his money (like some pro-Gates people believe) or any of that stuff... I am a college student, am 19, lived in a trailer for most of my life, and have no illusions that I will ever be as rich as Mr. Gates. This is okay with me, because I will do more to volunteer than I believe he ever will, and I think I can make more of a positive influence on the people I meet than he will. I realize that some of you may think that Mr. Gates is a wonderful person for donating all this money and such, and I'll grant that it is a good thing. However, you might want to realize that the amount of charity he does is directly proportional to how much he can take off his taxes doing it. Also, he's ONLY offering money. How often does Mr. Gates actually go out and do hard labor to build a house with Habitat for Humanity, to help homeless shelters, or to teach kids to read? Yeah, I thought so.... by the way, I noticed a few of you tal...