Marlene Engelhorn hadn’t given much thought to the wealth that surrounded her as she grew up. She always considered the fortune, inherited from Friedrich Engelhorn, the 19th-century founder of the German chemical giant BASF, to be her family’s money rather than hers.
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    8 months ago

    “I’m just one brain, I’m just one person and so to me, this is a huge relief knowing that the process of redistribution is much more legitimate and thorough and democratic than I could ever do it,” she said in an interview with Bloomberg. “Nobody needs another foundation.”

    It’s good that someone realizes the problems with it, and also decides to not go for that option, even if it means losing control over the funds.

    Also, the altered copy behavior is really annoying. I had to resort to using developer tools to actually copy the text. This is what was inserted when copying the text normally:

    “I’m just one brain, I’m just one person and so to me, this is a huge relief knowing that the process of redistribution is much more legitimate and thorough and democratic than I could ever do it,” she…

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