Eye of the Needle

Karl Rabeder, Austrian Millionaire, Wants To Give Away Fortune:
"'My idea is to have nothing left. Absolutely nothing,' he told The Daily Telegraph. 'Money is counterproductive - it prevents happiness to come.'

He first got the idea during a luxurious trip to Hawaii with his wife.

'It was the biggest shock in my life, when I realised how horrible, soulless and without feeling the five star lifestyle is,' he said. 'In those three weeks, we spent all the money you could possibly spend. But in all that time, we had the feeling we hadn't met a single real person - that we were all just actors. The staff played the role of being friendly and the guests played the role of being important and nobody was real.'

He had similar feelings of guilt while on gliding trips in South America and Africa. 'I increasingly got the sensation that there is a connection between our wealth and their poverty,' he said."