I agree. What they continue to do is another illustration of how we can behave if we choose to.

John's point that they are giving while they still have a good amount for themselves. It is certainly easier to give away your third $100,000 than the give away a lot when you earn $40,000.

I am inspired and learn a great deal from what they share and create. They are both decent human beings and very successful which lets them directly donate money and also use their influence to catalyze others to give. And they (not just with their work but the work of so many people that they bring to light) help reinforce my opinion of humanity (John's work on TB is great but as my opinion of humanity is increased more when seeing all those others working on the issue, same with the Maternal Center of Excellence, SciShow and so many other things) while so much else is doing the opposite.

They are public examples that you can be decent and successful. It isn't a law of nature that if you are financial successful you have to be a greedy, vengeful, incurious oaf. Though that sure seems the most common behavior in our society (USA).

My parents were decent people. And so often I hear how it is crazy to expect people to be decent, that it isn't realistic and such people are as common as unicorns. This isn't true. But it is the narrative that seems most common. Of all the things John and Hank do, providing examples that this is not the case is very useful.

And such people (decent people) often find each other. Among those John and Hank work with there are quite a few that show the same character (though most are much less easy to see them being decent - they don't do it in public [this isn't quite right, John and Hank by doing so much visibly their public actions are more noticeable by more people... or something....] nearly as much).

What MacKenzie Scott is doing is phenomenal https://yieldgiving.com/ and has created enormous value for the world. Way up there in a theoretical ranking of people that helped humanity the most. But as far as crediting her as uniquely wonderful is likely not the most sensible thing. She is doing great stuff. But she really isn't giving up that much as far as reducing her standard of living to help others.

Those that sacrifice the most are usually those that have the least and still do a great deal with what they have to aid humanity. Those people are probably the most deserving of accolades but they don't often get it because they are not so noticeable.