Getting back to what we were actually talking about…
So to take that last sentence again…
Why do you suppose someone like him, an über-rich arch-capitalist, would be there? Could he have pulled off a Bond villain scheme if the system hadn’t allowed him to amass so much wealth? Theoretically yes, because schemes require power, and wealth and power are not quite the same thing. But when you get to that kind of level, they might as well be.
As people have argued before, once you already have the money for so many private islands and yachts and spaceships and whatever else happens to be trendy, what more do you need? “But it’s not fair! I earned that money! If I pay more tax than the peasants, it’s morally wrong!” Maybe you did earn it, but there’s this thing called civilization, and getting it to work and stay working is complicated. It can still work with some people being super-rich, even ultra-rich. But über-rich? There’s a limit to everything.
