Ok I got a little breathing space. They are giving away money though. Ideas.

Im looking for guys who have lived their lives with the great humanitarian ideals, that also lived good family lives. I think most of the men on this list are just rich and have decided to use their money for good causes. I dont think they had these ideas in mind when they first started. I think they are giving back. It would really help if I had someone who started with humanitarian ideas in mind and also lived these same ideas. Intellectuals in the human condition, not necessarily business men who become incredibly weathly and felt they owed something back and then later in life when they felt their own mortality turned their gaze to the human condition (better late than never). Nonetheless a comforting try.

And I know I like at least two of the men. Although Gates is so incredibly ill-informed about education as it exists today, that his initiatives wont work. He needs a solid background in the major problems, otherwise he will be throwing money into a pit of educational bureaucrats... yes, even in his more private look at education.

Maybe I just have to stick with men, or women, that are in some sort of religious position. Folks that are humanitarians with big ideas that have written extensively and have spent their lives striving to fulfill propositions, but not necessarily wealthy.