Every billionaire is a policy failure. You seem to recognize that the three people you mentioned are, by any objective standard, awful people. Depending on whi

Every billionaire is a policy failure. You seem to recognize that the three people you mentioned are, by any objective standard, awful people. Depending on which billionaire you look at, you'll see variations of this. For example, the billionaires (eg Koch, Musk) who spend huge sums in derailing (pun intended) any effort to build public transport infrastructure in the US (eg [1][2]). The question then becomes why. There are really three roads you can go down: 1. You blame a specific group (eg ethnicity, religion, etc). We'll call this the Kanye Road to Antisemitism; 2. You see such individuals as simply bad apples, exceptions. If however you look you'll find pretty much any billionaire is awful and in some way is seeking to destroy the system that made (and continues to make) their very wealthy possible; or 3. You realize this is a systemic problem. I would put to you that the problem is (3). [1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/climate/koch-brothers-public-transit.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/climate/koch-brothers-pub... [2]: https://jalopnik.com/did-musk-propose-hyperloop-to-stop-california-high-spee-1849402460 https://jalopnik.com/did-musk-propose-hyperloop-to-stop-cali...