It's ok

when you ask a person to invest his money with you,that's a seduction.

when you ask him to pledge his net worth.

that's what the mongols did when they sacked a village.

I was gonna say it's a marriage

Well,the mongols called it that,too.

Look,I get why you've been putting me off.Most people don't like to think about giving their money away.It makes them think they're gonna die.But you can rest assured--You are gonna die.

A man tries a lot of things .He fucks,he fathers,he letters his name above doorways he'd never otherwise walk through.Any of this sound familiar?

Why do you make so much money?

Because I can.

Bullshit.A lot of things you can do that you don't--bark like a seal,ride the subway.You make money because it feels good.Well,here's the crazy thing.Giving it away feels better.

Do you remember what it felt like to make that first million?I didn't feel that good again until I pledged to give away 20,000 times that.It's the cure.Accumulation with no end in sight is gluttony.That's the disease.

I thought it was a sin.

Fuck sin.Fuck piety.I'm talking about what you can use.Gluttony hollows you out.Giving goes the other way.I know.It's a fucking paradox,but I worked it out. The reason that nothing levers up your happiness like giving is because it puts you back in charge of the only thing that you ever really cared about--yourself.That's why I founded the Giving Oath.

And that's why I'm sitting here.