Philanthropy

Re “Teaching How to Give Stirs Doubts in Business Schools,” Jan. 29: Making money--especially “big money”--takes time, which means that dedicated money-makers (Bill Gates is a good example) generally know less about the human condition than the man on the street.

Any simple examination of the wealthy spending their hard-earned moneys shows that almost all of it goes into personal lifestyles fundamentally wasteful of our natural resources: estate development, expensive automobiles or other excesses. And this doesn’t even scratch the surface of what they may have done to our resources and environment to make that money.

PERRY BEZANIS

San Pedro