从此端到彼端

IF YOU are the world’s second-richest man, the best person to look after $31 billion of your hard-won fortune is probably the only man on the planet who has proved better at making money than you. Armed with that insight, Warren Buffett, a Nebraskan investor who claims to have been “wired at birth to allocate capital”, this week allocated the biggest chunk of philanthropic capital in history.

What is more remarkable, Mr Buffett put ego aside and gave the money to an outfit bearing someone else’s name. With the Nebraskan billions to add to $30 billion of their own, Bill and Melinda Gates will bein charge of a foundation the size of a multinational company such as Disney, Dell or Honda. Mr Buffett’s splendid liberality, announced this week in Fortune, is noteworthy for more than its magnitude. His example to plutocrats everywhere amounts to an altruistic call to action, part of an attempt with Mr Gates to make philanthropy as much about the doing as about the donating.

如果你是这个世界上第二富有的人，是看管通过你的辛勤努力赚得的310亿美元的最佳人选，那你或许也是这个星球上最会赚钱的人。在这样的注视下，沃伦·巴菲特，一个内布拉斯加的投资者，曾经宣称很兴奋能在活着的时候把财产分配出去的人，这周捐出了历史上最大块的慈善资金。

更非凡的是，巴菲特先生把自己撇开，将钱捐给了一个以别人名字命名的机构。内布拉斯加人的几百亿美金，加上他们自己的300亿美金，比尔和梅林达将要掌控一个规模相当于迪士尼、戴尔、本田这样的跨国公司的组织。巴菲特先生相当的慷慨，这周的财富杂志这样宣告，不仅仅是捐赠的数量值得注目。他的例子等于是在对每一处的财阀做出号召，是盖茨尝试着让慈善事业把关于做和关于捐赠变得同等重要的一部分。

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