'“A billionaire is a bad word in this country now,” he says, as his tea cools. “And that pains me.”' Maybe if fewer of them thought of themselves as being bett

'“A billionaire is a bad word in this country now,” he says, as his tea cools. “And that pains me.”' Maybe if fewer of them thought of themselves as being better than everyone else and, more importantly, stopped acting like they thought that way, their reputation would improve. But I don't believe that pains him. This isn't new. We've seen this kind of attitude in the wealthy time and again here in the US and every other society where a wealth gap as big as ours has existed. The results tend to not favor anyone, but the very wealthy tend to lose the most.