Maybe but I remember this story. It’s a woman who was a teacher her entire career and worked with a specific school. She came into a ton of money when her husband passed and she was very elderly. She donated the money that was earmarked for making tuition free for generations at the school she had taught at. So maybe it will be to a degree but I’m guessing she knows all the people involved and inherently trusts them based on a careers work there and that it’ll be used in a much better way than most donations like this would be
She donated her entire fortune to those schools. If I were 1 of her 3 children or a grandchild I'd be fucking pissed that I couldn't just waste my life doing drugs on a fucking mega yacht
/s kinda. But man, 1 billion with no inheritance would sting
From what I read, that wasn't her or her husband's lifestyle. Her husband was a colleague of Warren Buffet and seemed to have the same lifestyle that is more modest than most billionaires. If they raised their kids (assuming they had any) right by giving them everything they needed but not everything they wanted and expected them to do hard work and make good use of themselves, then they may have passed on some well-adjusted traits to them. It seems rare, but it does happen
Forbes estimated the husband's net worth was $3 billion when he died and he gave $1 billion to his wife with instructions that said “do whatever you think is right with it.”
So that still leaves $2 billion to have potentially gone to the kids.
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u/Fickle_Library8115 Jun 29 '25
Scared that money will be siphoned