[zaphar]

You assume there is a causal relationship between intelligence with success and moral fiber.

While there may be some correlation I don't think there is necessarily any causative relation. You also assume the patent and IP law issues have an obvious morally correct stance to everyone else.

I'm not sure either assumption is warranted.

[potatolicious]

Perhaps not moral fiber - but there's a self-serving element to doing good. I imagine rich, successful people like this guy here care about how they will be remembered.

After all, nobody wants to get his grave pissed on after he's dead. Nobody wants his children to bear the burden of having their father remembered as a parasitic burden on society.

Even in a completely selfish frame of reference, once you've reached some limit of wealth higher-order goals like this should start kicking in.

[zaphar]

    nobody wants to get his grave pissed on after he's dead.

I see no basis for that statement and a whole lot of anecdotal evidence to the contrary. The article we are discussing being one of them.