I wouldn't need billions, really. Not even millions. Just some income, I wouldn't mind if it was capital income, if some benevolent gazillionaire would pay me a

I wouldn't need billions, really. Not even millions. Just some income, I wouldn't mind if it was capital income, if some benevolent gazillionaire would pay me a modest lifetime allowance, or if I inherited some poor but filthy rich relative as long as nobody told me what to work on. I'd just sit down for probably four hours every day and write code for whatever open source project I'd feel like contributing to the most each time of the year. Sometimes possibly writing my own software, sometimes fixing stuff in other software, or sometimes just redesigning stuff. Minus all effort to convince people to accept my patches. But open source anyway. I think that open source is my best bet of making a difference in the world; I mean such a difference that scales. I have four hours to spare these days. But those would be the code-writing hours only. I would need the ten other hours, while doing all kinds of everyday stuff, to think about what to write the following day. I can't do that now that I'm working: I merely spend the four hours to unwind from what I did for work, to get back to normal. On the other hand, if I had lots of money then I'd feel being obliged to put that money into good use. Not just investing it into the most convenient index fund I happened to find: it would be my money and I'd be pretty picky about it. And managing money would take time; I'm afraid it'd take enough time to once again prevent me from just coding whatever I want.