Comment by AspireOne

> Amodeo could drop it all right now, today and spend the rest of his life with his family, or nose deep in the research project he's the most passionate about. He's not doing that, instead he's spending the remaining irreplaceable moments of his life pursuing the accumulation of power.

Again you go with this simplistic and reductionist view. This is an either-or fallacy.

I don't want to pursue this discussion any further, sorry. No offense to you. It just makes me too emotionally invested for some reason.