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3,836 views  Why It Doesn't Make Sense For Larry Page To Donate
His Google Billions To Elon Musk Or Tesla  Larry Page has noted
that instead of trying to leave his billions from Google Google
to a philanthropic foundation or two he might just as well give
it to Elon Musk. There would be a greater bang for the buck
there, rather more would be done with the money that way than a
generation or two of frittering it away on worthy little
projects.  Rose asked him about a sentiment that Page had
apparently voiced before that rather than leave his fortune to a
cause, that he might just give it to Elon Musk. Page agreed,
calling Musk’s aspiration to send humans to Mars Mars “to back
up humanity” a worthy goal. “That’s a company, and that’s
philanthropical,” he said.  Felix Salmon then goes through why
this is indeed a very good idea. And I agree with much of his
analysis (for the simple reason tha