That's very generous of her as an individual, bit of a difference between someone who creates wealth and still holds it by virtue of the ownership stake in the venture(s) they founded and someone who is handed it as liquid investments they aren't tied into and doesn't have a productive use for it though.
I do think it is a good thing for billionaires to pass on wealth with big gifts like that, ideally to more effective causes though*. Gates and Zuckerberg have donated billions and both have pledged to give away the majority of their wealth, it's clearly been better for those people to keep on running successful ventures and not just knock it all on the head when they made one or two billion but instead, they've been able to pledge so much more and to more effective causes and all while creating jobs, creating products that have real value and driving technological progress.
*As a result of her gift some of the highest paid salarymen and women in the US will have less student debt when they graduate from medical school and their lifetime net worth of a few million gets to be a bit more (maybe a few are encouraged to apply that may have been otherwise discouraged), there are rather a lot more good causes out there that she could have donated to and that would have had a much bigger impact (I really wish people would look more into effective giving, charity giving can vary a great deal in terms of it's impact) but still it's very generous of her to donate it regardless.
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