If I Were a Rich Man

One thing that’s been bugging me for the past several years is that America’s super-duper-duper wealthy — the kind who measure the net worths in the hundreds of billions — mostly seem to me to be using their money in unimaginative ways. But there are some worthy exceptions. Chris Hayes, for example, points to this Wired writeup of Jay Walker’s awesome library:

I’m enough of a power hungry megalomaniac that were I Bill Gates, I’m not sure I could resist the temptation to use my many, many, many billions of dollars to completely subvert American democracy. But I’d like to think I’d just build a cool library instead!