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To: Joseph G. who wrote (1900)	5/18/1998 10:14:00 PM
From: Tommaso	Respond to of 86076

Maybe I read that, too. But you are right, it's not really a lot, when you consider that a good private college education now costs $120,000 or more, without scholarships or loans. But at least it is something. The Rockefellers did a lot of interesting and useful things with their money. I think that anyone who makes a ton of money might want to consider that there is at least the chance that their offspring might have talents and ambitions that money would help to realize, and that often these are ambitions that have the public good at heart. Huge private fortunes have been squandered to no purpose at all. But Tolstoy would never have had the leisure to compose his novels without inherited wealth--which came to him when he was 21 years old. Anyone who is intimately acquainted with artists and writers, though, knows of numerous examples of those who have shown a special gift for wangling grants from foundations without ever producing a thing worth admiring. Maybe scientific awards are handled more intelligently. I think people should always treat their children as well as possible.