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Personally, I can’t imagine someone caring about that at all. Especially when you compare it to the possibility of saving hundreds of thousands of lives (https:
by gbear605 6y ago
Personally, I can’t imagine someone caring about that at all. Especially when you compare it to the possibility of saving hundreds of thousands of lives (https://www.givewell.org/giving101/Your-dollar-goes-further-overseas https://www.givewell.org/giving101/Your-dollar-goes-further-...).
But yes, some people clearly care about this sort of power above all else.
- gojomo 6y agoYet, if no one cared about "this sort of power" – the creative possibilities of large-scale enterprises under the control of those most engaged – we wouldn't have these computers, this internet, this HN. And Bill Gates is likely going to save (if he hasn't already) many more lives with his post-ambitious-building wealth, than if he'd cashed out as soon as he had "three or four million… to live the rest of [his] life in a very comfortable way", and donated the rest at that early moment.