Here's an interesting hypothetical -- if Bill Gates had been less ruthless in extracting the most money he could during his heyday as Microsoft CEO in the 90s,

Here's an interesting hypothetical -- if Bill Gates had been less ruthless in extracting the most money he could during his heyday as Microsoft CEO in the 90s, would he have been able to save less people dying of Malaria today? To put it another way, if everyone has bought less Microsoft products total throughout the company's history, what else would they have spent their money on? Maybe Gates' whole career was one huge egotistical venture into believing he could spend the world's money better than they could, and he saw his role at Microsoft as simply bringing that about in the most efficient way possible. I can't find many tenable reasons to disagree with that on a moral standpoint -- he has clearly done more good with his fortune than anybody else in recent memory.