全球最富有的人发现了一种新的散财方式：一次给一个孩子几百美元。
The world’s richest people have discovered a new way to give their money away: a couple hundred bucks to one kid at a time.
埃隆·马斯克本周承诺，将让数百万美国儿童各自获得他旗下SpaceX公司的股份。这笔约150美元的捐赠将与迈克尔·戴尔和苏珊·戴尔、雷·达里奥以及其他亿万富翁的捐款一道，通过一个名为“特朗普账户”的项目为儿童的投资账户注入种子资金。该项目正作为一种新的慈善形式逐渐兴起。
Elon Musk this week pledged to give millions of American children their own individual shares of his SpaceX company. That $150 or so would join donations from Michael and Susan Dell, Ray Dalio and other billionaires seeding kids’ investment accounts through a Trump Accounts program gaining steam as a new form of philanthropy.
“从很多方面来说，这是我们的IPO时刻，就像谷歌在2005年那样，”科技投资人布拉德·格斯特纳在接受采访时说。他六年前构想了这个项目，将其推销给白宫，并一直负责监督其推出。
“In many ways, this is our IPO moment, where Google was in 2005,” said tech investor Brad Gerstner, who conceived of the program six years ago, sold it to the White House and has overseen its rollout, in an interview.
格斯特纳当初设计这个项目，并不是为了让门洛帕克的民众放下干草叉，但这些赠予推出之际，科技亿万富翁们正需要一切能得到的声誉帮助。
Gerstner didn’t come up with the program to keep the pitchforks out of Menlo Park, but the giveaways debut at a time when tech billionaires need all the reputational help they can get.