How about help with moving Minecraft over to a normal game engine. Don't tell me he's barred from going near the game again. He has endless options or opportuies. Hell, go pay a company off to make a movie or a show you loved, but got canned, for an example.

Yeah, that was my read. Looks like an enviable problem and a joke on the surface, but judging without all the facts is something to avoid.

Go help some people for crying out loud. There's a lot of people everywhere you look who are in, kids stuck in orphanages with no one to help them out, people who can't pay their medical bills, refugees fleeing war-torn countries, ... pick one (or all of them) and make a difference in someone's life.

Sorry but no sympathy. Money doesn't buy happiness, but it sure does buy a lot of luxury to be miserable in. Those with so much wealth claiming they are bored need to "wake the #@$%$ up". He doesn't have less options now, he has more than he ever had. He can still work as developer, he can devote his life to charity, spend time traveling, basically his options are limited only by his lack of imagination. He is sad because his friends don't have the money to just do nothing with him, that is just pathetic

Seems he was coping with depression already, a clean break and securing the future of his employees didn't solve it. He has plenty of time to get over it. Blaming his billions for his depression is just being in denial of whatever the real issues are. Money doesn't buy happiness, just infinite more ways to find it... Get creative.

He waits for his family and friends to finish work?

Pay their mortgages and a massive holiday around the world then. If he isn't willing to to that, humanitarian aid hasn't even occurred to him in the slightest.

Well he does have manic depression so there is that.

I have, for many years, said I have absolutely no desire to ever be rich. I have struggles in life, certainly financially (at times), but that in no way makes my life bad. I have my relationship with God thanks to Christ, I have an amazing woman by my side in my wife that loves me and that I love, and there are thousands of other things that I am thankful for.

Wealth either corrupts, depresses, or both unless you are extremely unique compared to the rest of us. People are always shocked when I say this; as if I'm crazy for not wanting to be rich. But time and time again, you see examples all over the world of wealth ruining people.

And yes, I know that to the rest of the world, as a professional working class (big boy job) citizen in the United States that I am considered rich. I do not deny I am far better off than the vast majority of the world. To not boast in myself or anything I do, but to also not convey the message that I am hypocritical, I will just leave it at the fact that I try and be as loving towards others, in anyway possible and needed, as I can (though I am not perfect at it and, some times if not often, I am downright bad at it). But I don't live to spoil myself. My wife and I live in an apartment and we are trying to save for a house so as to not waste money on property that we don't own.

Why would anyone feel bad for him? He has a massive amount of money and I am sure he can get next to any developer related job he wants. His fault for thinking a lot of wealth means you should stop working and/or stop contributing to society.

You can tell that most people in this thread don't have the first clue what a depression actually is.

I'll let you guys in on a little secret: rational thinking is the first casualty during a depression.

Do I feel empathy for him? No... that's the second casualty during a depression...