Your2ndPlace

Yup. Instead of turning that philanthropy inward, they're exporting it to virtual worlds. Second Life in particular.

As I commented there - if philanthropy actually worked, it would have eradicated itself by now. Instead, it creates the need for people to write papers to other people who need tax breaks. Pass around the hat.

Wait - who counts among the venture capitalists for Second Life? Oh dear. Maybe poor Philbert is just a meat-puppet. Poor guy.

I'd love to see them actually have one of these meetings in a poor area without electricity, water and (*gasp*) internet access.

So if you want to endure a soiree of who's who and who knows who and who funds who... you know what to do. But if you want to actually make things better in the world, here's all I'll say.

Sometimes the hand you hold is the hand that holds you down.