Apple CEO Tim Cook to donate his fortune to charity

The world needs more CEOs like him. The CEOs of the largest companies of the world have the power to really change the world by just donating the money.<p>Not everyone &quot;can&quot; or &quot;afford&quot; to think of rest of the world because they are to0 helpless to give away the money instead of making ends meet.<p>It is really difficult to fill the shoes of Steve Jobs and get out of the shadow, and not only he has maintained the dignity of what apple is but Tim Cook has certainly made a name for himself and it is very nice to hear that we have such good people in this world.<p>It makes me fall in love with Apple more. #Respect

On page 263 of my large-print edition of the Isaacson biography of Steve Jobs, Jobs is quoted as saying about Bill Gates, &quot;Bill is basically unimaginative and has never invented anything, which is why I think he&#x27;s more comfortable now in philanthropy than technology&quot;.<p>I don&#x27;t know about you, but I&#x27;d rather be unimaginative than fabulously, unimaginably rich but also selfish about it.

I like seeing these sorts of actions... I do wish that more corporations simply operated a bit more even handed to begin with though.<p>As an aside, I really wish there was a tag in the headline when auto-play video is in a link... I tend to open up several articles and the respective comments in tabs in the morning... the chrome indicator helps, but would be nice to know it was going to happen.

Interesting that the article mentions his orientation. Seems irrelevant to the premise of the story.

Isn&#x27;t it interesting that it&#x27;s seemingly only self-made millionaires&#x2F;billionaires who are pledging the bulk of their self-made fortunes away? That despite them doing this, we&#x27;re not seeing &quot;old&quot; money following suit?

I am surprised that he isn&#x27;t over a billion already. I guess the extreme wealth of a few founders makes me assume &quot;CEO of largest company in the world worth 600B should be worth over a billion himself&quot;

Actually, the world needs more people who think beyond their own family legacy and consider what the world needs. Its interesting how you can look at people today (via the media) and size them up as far as if they feel they are a citizen of the world. Tim Cook clearly sees himself that way. The Koch Brothers...not so much.

This post says Entire which doesn&#x27;t make any sense unless he means when he dies. But upon reading the actual article it doesn&#x27;t mention anywhere &quot;entire&quot;.

The headline here has &quot;entire&quot; in it - on CNN it does not. Makes quite a difference!

This should be good for the Apple stocks.

Do LGBT orgs count as charity in his definition?

Sorry if this is politically incorrect. I say this respectfully and with the hope that it would be useful to someone who reads it:<p>People typically save money for their kids. The &#x27;mothering&#x27; or &#x27;fathering&#x27; instincts are so strong that we protect resources for our progenys. It appears that Tim Cook may never have a real progency. So what will he do with all this money? He could give it to his nephew. Maybe. He gets a thank you card from them. But his &#x27;parenting&#x27; instincts are not triggered by it. So he has to do something else with it, like donating it to Charity.

I don&#x27;t understand the psychology of making billions of the backs of the grotesquely underpaid and over-worked masses (Foxconn suicides [1] and illegally mined tin [2] for example) and then turning around and saying &#x27;oh, this is too much for one person - here, you have it.&#x27; If you want to help people or even just preserve the environment, why not start with what you have direct control and responsibility over in the first place.<p>Fucking billionaires [<a href="https://youtu.be/iko4s3CfBi0?t=44s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;iko4s3CfBi0?t=44s</a>]<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_suicides" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Foxconn_suicides</a> [2] <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-02-13/apple-supply-report-acknowledges-its-smartphones-and-tablets-rely-on-smelters-using-illegally-mined-tin" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;bw&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2014-02-13&#x2F;apple-supply...</a>