By IAN BIRRELL FOR THE DAILY MAIL
PUBLISHED: 20:18 EST, 2 December 2015 | UPDATED: 03:44 EST, 3 December 2015
Once, it was enough to put a notice in the newspaper when your child was born. But Mark Zuckerberg, the multi-billionaire founder of Facebook, likes to do things differently.
So he welcomed his newborn daughter, Max, into the world with an open letter on his social media site, in which he and his wife, Priscilla Chan, pledged to donate almost all their £30 billion fortune to charity during their lives.
The happy couple talked rather smugly about how their first child gave them cause to reflect on the future, saying they were inspired by their desire to build a better world and because they have a ‘moral responsibility to all children in the next generation’.
Why is it smug to commit to donating tens of $billions? I don’t get the snarkiness.
The management of Facebook has an obligation to shareholders to minimize tax. Zuckerberg is a prime beneficiary. He is donating it rather than giving it to the government, I can think of worse things.