People tend to have instinctive respect for earned authority. This same reverence is also given to sportstars and artists. American billionaires, for all their

People tend to have instinctive respect for earned authority. This same reverence is also given to sportstars and artists. American billionaires, for all their faults, have the most “legitimate” authority in modern(post-enlightenment, post-martial) history. https://blogs.law.columbia.edu/uprising1313/files/2017/09/arendt_what-is-authority.pdf https://blogs.law.columbia.edu/uprising1313/files/2017/09/ar... > The authoritarian relation between the one who commands and the one who obeys rests neither on common reason nor on the power of the one who commands; what they have in common is the hierarchy itself, whose Tightness and legitimacy both recognize and where both have their predetermined stable place. This is also why the “millionaiahs and billionaihs” rhetoric from the left falls flat with immigrant populations. The rich and successful people here are way better than the kleptocrats and oligarchs elsewhere. For example: There’s some good stuff that’s been written comparing Russian oligarchs with western businessmen, their spending habits, values, lifestyles etc.