There's room in my heart for a lot of people, but the ones who exploit others for profit aren't among them.
I feel as though there is a very strong qualitative difference between "hast thou considered the financier" and "this broken person has destroyed everything in the pursuit of a profit they can no longer enjoy." I actually feel relatively little sympathy for Vincent Anderson, but still feel like this article has a great deal of merit.
Regardless of if you think that his late-life mea culpa is because he realized the hollowness of achievements and sought to achieve some measure of redemption, or because he no longer has cash resources to assuage the huge amounts of guilt he correctly feels, I think that both fit neatly within his characterization. After all, this is the man who interrupted his daughter's honeymoon to let her know that he was very sorry and that he was ever so generously giving her millions of dollars like a good, heroic person would. The fact that he contains such complexity doesn't serve to make him any less of a despicable person, or his actions any less heinous; giving someone depth and motivation doesn't, or at least shouldn't, excuse their actions.
Anderson chose to forsake literally everything in the name of profit and his company. He doesn't even have that anymore. I think that this is a lot richer than "the robot billionaire is sad :("
