I would say the difference is the level of awareness and context for the two viewpoints. The author is more aware of what the other authors were really saying.

I would say the difference is the level of awareness and context for the two viewpoints. The author is more aware of what the other authors were really saying. The billionaires couldn’t do what they are doing if they were that aware, so instead they can’t help but grab significantly more out-of-context aspects of interesting worldviews and tie them together just enough to mask their limited time and interest in a more considered perspective. If the author were advocating for anticompetitive business practices and trying to use them to further his science fiction financial success based on a perusal of recent management texts, that is where we could say the same thing about the author that we can say in this context about the billionaires.