As you have probably read, Warren Buffet just donated $37Billion to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. I am thanking him here not only for the millions of lives he will make better, but for providing a role model for me to follow. I doubt I’ll ever make it as big as he did, but it’s a wonderful thought that I shall keep with me. I’ve been caught up in Randian thought before wondering why a person must do this, why society must take from he who is its driving force, but here I see a different picture. This is a man with far more money than he could ever spend selfishly if he even wanted to. In most cases, this results in generations of the family living off of this wealth, but Buffet said that he does not believe in dynastic wealth, and will “leave his children with enough to do whatever they want, but not enough to do nothing.” This is a wonderful idea, and since the people running the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have developed a great business sense from the years of earning their money and have proven themselves to have the willpower to follow through on it, the foundation will be very successful. As Jeff Skoll, founder of eBay said on I believe a 20/20 episode: “I do not think of money as a final goal but as a means to my goals; an intermediary. Were everyone given an equal grounds to start on, the free market would appear to be flawless, but since that is not the case, It is important for those capable to try to level the playing field. I am not at all endorsing communism, people are not equal, and should not be considered such, the system just fails. They should, however, all be given a chance to live and succeed in this world.