Yet, 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.