I think if his foundation wasn&#x27;t accompanied by a multiple page long self-aggrandizing commitment to charity people would simply appreciate and not scrutinize. But in particular we have a model for what it looks like when a tech billionaire tries to donate his time and money to do something good for the world instead of building widgets and does it very well: the Gates foundation.<p>And his previous &quot;public works&quot; attempt was a lobbying group for &quot;immigration reform&quot; that claimed to try to make life better for vast swaths of people and yet was simply a front to lobby the government to let tech businesses exploit immigrant slave labor more effectively. Accompanied by a similar impassioned speech about doing good works. Most of the lobbying was in the form of pretty despicable character assassination.<p>In particular he takes jabs at the Gates foundation for not lobbying for example. The Gates foundation is enormously successful and Zuckerberg hasn&#x27;t accomplished anything. Right now all he&#x27;s done is set up a company that he has control over and promised &quot;guys, I&#x27;ll give this money to &#x27;charity&#x27; however I define it at my discretion whatever that means&quot;.<p>I&#x27;m hopeful and at its face I think it&#x27;s a wonderful thing he&#x27;s pledged to do but I think it&#x27;s a bit premature to fall all over ourselves thanking him for reorganizing his finances because that&#x27;s all he&#x27;s really done so far.