Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has possessed an infinite amount of success. The 32-year-old multi-billionaire serves as one of Silicon Valley's most prominent poster children; an inspiration for the waves of young people who have gravitated to the tech industry and flooded the Bay Area in search of comparable success. It's not just success that has shaped Zuckerberg's prominence and influence; what differentiates him and many of his Silicon Valley peers is their aspiration not just for personal success, but for changing the world. While this might be a warm, fuzzy goal of millennials everywhere, entering a world in which individual tech billionaires have the potential for a wide, overarching influence in society is not something to be taken lightly. The characteristics that lead to success in the worlds of technology and business are not the same ones that make someone moral and trustworthy. Zuckerberg and his philanthropic contemporaries are under no obligation, moral legal or otherwise, to actually have the best interests of society at heart.

Unlike the billionaires of times past, Zuckerberg isn't content to revel in his riches and maintain the status quo that gave him his start. While Wall Street profiteers his age have been practically defined by their selfishness, Zuckerberg's pendulum swings stridently in the opposite direction. With the rise of Facebook's prosperity, he's been notably generous to charities.