This piece by Felix Salmon is the most thoughtful writing on the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative that I've read so far, and it explains our philosophy well:
"As he has explained in a thoughtful letter to his newborn daughter Max, the 7.3 billion people alive in the world today are dwarfed by the tens of billions of people who are going to be born in the future. "We believe all lives have equal value, and that includes the many more people who will live in future generations than live today,” he writes. “Our society has an obligation to invest now to improve the lives of all those coming into this world, not just those already here.”...
The most important stick that Zuckerberg has planted in the ground this week is not the fact that he has set up an LLC rather than a charitable foundation, nor is it the precedent of a man just 31 years old making such a large charitable pledge. Rather, it’s Zuckerberg’s high-level view of intergenerational equity.
It’s important to have a clear grasp of this concept, because it underpins not only Zuckerberg’s philosophy but also the climate-change discussions which are taking place in Paris this week...
In the climate-change debate, such questions normally reduce to a number known as the “social rate of time discount,” which is used to calculate how much current generations, with less money, should spend to increase the wellbeing of future generations, with more money.
Zuckerberg is clear on his answer to that question: when he says that “all lives have equal value”, even the ones in future generations, he’s signing on to the philosophy of Sir Nicholas Stern, who calculated that the world should spend 1% of gross world product – around $1 trillion per year – on doing everything we can to reduce our carbon emissions and improve the world for those not yet born.
Stern’s very low social rate of time discount, of 0.1%, has some uncomfortable implications: Sir Partha Dasgupta, of Cambridge University,calculated (although not everybody agreed) that it means we should invest 97.5% of our current income for the benefit of future generations. But that, of course, is exactly what Mark Zuckerberg has pledged to do, with his own wealth.
It’s not uncommon for philanthropic funds to be directed for the benefit of those not yet born...Those foundations are designed to exist in perpetuity, and generally give away no more than 5% of their assets each year. Benjamin Franklin’s Franklin Funds were founded in 1790 and continued through to 1991, a period of 200 years...
Zuckerberg’s vision, by contrast, is different. He doesn’t want to create something which just keeps on doing the same thing for hundreds of years. He wants to spend billions of dollars today (or at least within his lifetime) on something transformational, which could help transform the lives of billions of future inhabitants of the planet for the better.
ชิ้นนี้ โดยปลาแซลมอนเฟลิกซ์เป็นสุดเด่นบนริ Zuckerberg จันทร์ที่ผมเคยอ่านจน และก็อธิบายปรัชญาดี:"ตามที่เขาได้อธิบายไว้ในจดหมายที่เด่นกับลูกสาวทารกของเขาสูงสุด 7.3 พันล้านคนมีชีวิตอยู่ในโลกทุกวันนี้มี dwarfed โดยสิบพันล้านคนที่กำลังจะเกิดในอนาคต" เราเชื่อว่า ชีวิตมีค่าเท่ากับ และที่มีคนมากหลายที่จะอยู่ในรุ่นสดวันนี้ ที่เขาเขียน "สังคมที่มีการลงทุนตอนนี้ชีวิตของผู้ที่เข้ามาในโลกนี้ ไม่ใช่แค่นั้นแล้วที่นี่" ...ไม้สำคัญที่ Zuckerberg ได้ปลูกในพื้นดินสัปดาห์นี้ไม่ใช่ความจริงที่ว่าเขาได้ตั้ง LLC ตัวแทนมูลนิธิการกุศล หรือเป็นเหตุของมนุษย์เพียง 31 ปีทำดังกล่าวมีขนาดใหญ่กุศลบริจาคเงิน ค่อนข้าง มันเป็นของ Zuckerberg มองระดับสูงของหุ้น intergenerationalสิ่งสำคัญคือต้องมีความเข้าใจที่ชัดเจนของแนวคิดนี้ เนื่องจาก underpins ไม่เพียงแต่ปรัชญาของ Zuckerberg แต่ยังอธิบายการเปลี่ยนแปลงสภาพภูมิอากาศซึ่งจะจัดขึ้นปารีสสัปดาห์นี้...ในการอภิปรายการเปลี่ยนแปลงสภาพภูมิอากาศ คำถามดังกล่าวโดยปกติลดรู้จักหมายเลข "สังคมอัตราส่วนลดเวลา ซึ่งใช้ในการคำนวณจำนวนรุ่นปัจจุบัน มีเงินน้อย ควรใช้จ่ายเพื่อเพิ่มสุขภาพที่ดีของอนุชนรุ่นหลัง มีเงินZuckerberg is clear on his answer to that question: when he says that “all lives have equal value”, even the ones in future generations, he’s signing on to the philosophy of Sir Nicholas Stern, who calculated that the world should spend 1% of gross world product – around $1 trillion per year – on doing everything we can to reduce our carbon emissions and improve the world for those not yet born.Stern’s very low social rate of time discount, of 0.1%, has some uncomfortable implications: Sir Partha Dasgupta, of Cambridge University,calculated (although not everybody agreed) that it means we should invest 97.5% of our current income for the benefit of future generations. But that, of course, is exactly what Mark Zuckerberg has pledged to do, with his own wealth.It’s not uncommon for philanthropic funds to be directed for the benefit of those not yet born...Those foundations are designed to exist in perpetuity, and generally give away no more than 5% of their assets each year. Benjamin Franklin’s Franklin Funds were founded in 1790 and continued through to 1991, a period of 200 years...Zuckerberg’s vision, by contrast, is different. He doesn’t want to create something which just keeps on doing the same thing for hundreds of years. He wants to spend billions of dollars today (or at least within his lifetime) on something transformational, which could help transform the lives of billions of future inhabitants of the planet for the better.
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