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It’ s no great surprise that Bill Gates has decided to walk away from his day-to-day involvement with Microsoft, and use his ful
It’ s no great surprise that Bill Gates has decided to walk away from his day-to-day involvement with Microsoft, and use his ful
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2018-01-18
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It’ s no great surprise that Bill Gates has decided to walk away from his day-to-day involvement with Microsoft, and use his full attention to oversee how the Bill Gates Foundation spends its $ 16 billion on philanthropy, or charity. But Gates is not the first one to follow the path. Ever since the industrial revolution, wealthy self-made businessmen and businesswomen have felt a calling to create a legacy that goes beyond a profit and loss sheet. The saying " He who dies rich, dies disgraced" runs deeply through the business community.
But out of all the great philanthropists, Mr. Gates’ career path appears to be closest to the oil millionaire John Rockefeller. Both were self-made men and both became the richest men on the planet. Rockefeller was in his late fifties when he turned his attention full time to philanthropy— creating vast charitable foundations to promote health and education. Now Gates says he will do the same in his early fifties. " With great wealth comes great responsibility," he adds.
Like Gates, many philanthropists do not want to pass on too much wealth to their children. They want them to be comfortable, with a nice house and some money in trust for their grandchildren. But they don’ t want to leave them millions and millions because they know how important it is for them to make their own way. In Britain, for instance, the newspaper’ s rich lists are increasingly dominated by self-made millionaires, rather than inherited wealth. New money is less likely to be tied up in assets, making it ripe for philanthropy.
The appearance of the welfare state also had a great impact on attitudes to philanthropy. The state was saying it would take over much of the role of what was once regarded as the responsibility of private philanthropists.
The chief reason why philanthropy has come into a good stage is that______.
选项
A、the new money is less likely to be regarded as one’ s private wealth
B、Gates will devote his full attention to philanthropy
C、the welfare state would take over all the charity responsibilities
D、many new millionaires are self-made rather than inherited
答案
D
解析
推理判断题。文中没有提到新的钱财不再被当作私有财产,故A项不 正确。B项和C项均与本题无关,可排除。文中第三段第四、五句提到:报纸上的富 豪排行榜上出现了越来越多靠白手起家而不是继承财产的百万富翁。故选D。
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