&gt;You spend $45B on changing the way governments and populations live work and how power is balanced.<p>$45B is even overkill for that.  Each presidential candidate spent (or had spent on their behalf) roughly $1B in 2012.  Zuckerberg therefore could have doubled a candidates spending for each presidential election for the rest of his life and still have half his fortune.  $45B is that huge.<p>EDIT: The multiple downvotes seem to indicate I said something that is disagreeable.  I&#x27;m not implying that buying elections would be a better use of Zuckerberg&#x27;s money, just that he has so much money that elections are just more &quot;stuff&quot; he could buy without even thinking hard about it.