The opposite, I think. People with that much money mostly fold in on themselves and spend all of their time managing the money for their own benefit (or even as a compulsion for its own sake).<p>The money was irrelevant, just as you think, but Bill spent his precious attention to give us Feynman instead of the nearly limitless other opportunities that money gave him. That rocks.<p>I didn&#x27;t like his business practices. I very much like his philanthropy. One doesn&#x27;t &quot;cancel out&quot; the other or any of that nonsense. They plot on different axis.