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by potatolicious 5861 days ago
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.

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    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.