Why isn't greed used for good?

You know, philanthropic goals being fulfilled by short term greed leading to the long term benefit of humanity.  Bill Gates founding a college or McDonald's donating to charity are small examples of this, but more obvious ones would be greed through harnessing cleaner fuel sources, or feeding third world countries, providing shelter, etc.  Companies still make money, but get to benefit humanity as a whole.  Or is this too Green Party thinking?

That <i>is</i> what the fuck.

It's nothing to do with the length of time (although some areas were down for more than 24, not 10, hours), but the fact that one error in one small place propagated so far that it shut down such a massive area.

Ten hours, or ten seconds, something like that is ridiculous. Its shouldn't be possible. But guess what?