Pavel Durov
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and the kids who are just my biological kids that I've never seen, as long as they can establish their shared DNA with me, someday, maybe in 30 years from now, they have to be
entitled for a share of my estate after I'm gone.
And that made a lot of noise in the news for some reason.
People get very excited by this kind of news.
I got a lot of messages from people claiming they're my kids.
I got a lot of requests from people asking me to adopt them
The memes were priceless.
But understanding that, no, it's not a thing that most people do.
I don't see anything wrong with it.
If anything, I think more people should be donating sperm.
Yeah, I think overabundance.
paralyzes motivation and willpower.
It's extremely harmful, particularly for young boys, to grow up in an environment where they can be proud not of their own achievements, but of their father's achievements, of their father's wealth.
It's still risky.
But one of the reasons I decided it makes more sense to divide this huge wealth that I'm likely to leave behind among a hundred or more than a hundred people is that it won't be too much for every single descendant.
But at the same time, some people did the calculation.
It's still many, many millions of dollars for each child, so I'm not sure it helps too much.
We have evolved to overcome scarcity.
Almost by definition there has never been such thing as infinite amount of food or entertainment in our lives before now.
We seem as a species to lose our ability to identify purpose in a world where you have everything and everything loses its meaning.