Trappings of Wealth
If my lifetime salary caps were in place, we wouldn't have to watch someone blow good money this way:

"Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, one of the richest men on Earth, pledged Friday to donate $13.5 million for the research into extra-terrestrial life."

I'm all for putting money into science and research, but this is just a man with more money than he knows what to do with. I could have bought a steak dinner, a fancy car and 13 million lottery tickets with that money.