James Pettifer
Jim Clark (26)
Sadly enough, the very rich do not do things like that. That's why they are very rich. Although there are a couple of exceptions. Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett for example.
I have known a few rich people. I think it is fair to say that you have to be an unhappy person to want to become rich, because of the sacrifices that are required.
And if by some fluke a normal kind of person becomes rich, they usually become unhappy. They lose friends, if they ever had any, relationships break down, etc etc.
Some others do. David Walsh invested a huge amount of his money into MONA.
There are the various soccer sponsors (although the Russians are possibly doing it to ensure that they are popular and are thus less likely to be able to be sent back to Russia).
A couple of billion and it would definitely solve all our problems ... anyone a closet billionaire?