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The opposite, I think. People with that much money mostly fold in on themselves and spend all of their time managing the money for their own benefit (or even as
by noonespecial 11y ago
The opposite, I think. People with that much money mostly fold in on themselves and spend all of their time managing the money for their own benefit (or even as a compulsion for its own sake).
The money was irrelevant, just as you think, but Bill spent his precious attention to give us Feynman instead of the nearly limitless other opportunities that money gave him. That rocks.
I didn't like his business practices. I very much like his philanthropy. One doesn't "cancel out" the other or any of that nonsense. They plot on different axis.
- edanm 11y ago"People with that much money mostly fold in on themselves and spend all of their time managing the money for their own benefit (or even as a compulsion for its own sake)." Do you have any source for that? That doesn't fit a lot of very famous billionaires, at least.
- sdoering 11y agoWell isn`t this some sort of selection bias going on here? To draw your conclusion, I would think you are talking about the louder, more visible types of billionaires. Not necessarily a randomly selected subset of billionaires.
- edanm 11y agoThat's a good point. And yet, I'd still like to see some kind of reason to think that that's how the other billionaires behave.