How is funding research that will benefit people, including yourself, egotistical? It seems like a perfectly logical thing to do. You have a rare illness, you h

How is funding research that will benefit people, including yourself, egotistical? It seems like a perfectly logical thing to do. You have a rare illness, you have the money to research treatment, you do the research, that way everyone with the illness benefits. This isn't his philanthropy plan. I'm sure he does plenty of other philanthropic projects. He only mentioned one as it was related to the story he was writing about.