In any case, Susie didn’t get very excited when I told her we were going to get rich. She either didn’t care or didn’t believe me—probably both, in fact. But to the extent we did amass wealth, we were totally in sync about what to do with it—and that was to give it back to society. In that, we agreed with Andrew Carnegie, who said that huge fortunes that flow in large part from society should in large part be returned to society. In my case, the ability to allocate capital would have had little utility unless I lived in a rich, populous country in which enormous quantities of marketable
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