So what? Dude was a collector of art and old tools, sold his own art, was the architect for his own buildings, and wrote several books. https://en.wikipedia.or

So what? Dude was a collector of art and old tools, sold his own art, was the architect for his own buildings, and wrote several books. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Chapman_Mercer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Chapman_Mercer Most people (including most scientists, artists, writers, businesspeople, etc.) never “achieve something in particular” by this kind of standard. Certainly plenty of “idle rich” do significantly less socially beneficial work than Mercer. If you start looking around at the rich more generally (e.g. people whose names are on university buildings) a substantial proportion were crooks of one type or another.