Your question is a good response to the framing of this philanthropy as &quot;giving back&quot;. Indeed, if the point of it is to give back, why not simply mold your corporate behemoth into something kinder and gentler.<p>I don&#x27;t think this sort of thing is about &quot;giving back&quot; however. I think it&#x27;s something more ambitious than that: to &quot;do something&quot;, do something transformative for the future.<p>Though Zuck&#x27;s manifesto isn&#x27;t well thought out yet, I&#x27;m stoked that he&#x27;s committed to doing something with that $45B. Because hoarding up billions of dollars into family dynasties is pretty much doing nothing.