Mostly agree, couple points on a few. > 2: spending their time however they choose Had a friend who read through one of Andrew Carnegie's books (biography) an

Mostly agree, couple points on a few. > 2: spending their time however they choose Had a friend who read through one of Andrew Carnegie's books (biography) and his take away from it (paraphrase from discussion) was that Carnegie didn't seem like he actually did all that much from a lot of his life. Definitely not "however they choose." Large portions of the book were effectively descriptions of dealing with the markets, wrangling with other wealthy over business empires, and trying to manage his own business. Friend's view at least, was it seemed like he mostly only really got to spend his money in retirement, having spent most of his "leisure" time on work related activities for decades. > The wealthy tech elite fawning over Trump publicly demonstrates that the US government still has power over them. Relative scale of the "ruled by them." (personal view) It's not so much of a fawning as buying access that's simply not available to most without the ability to dump money. Average Americans simply don't have the ability or connections to dump $10,000,000 on the inauguration, like Amazon or Disney. Beyond the range that banks would laugh at to even provide a loan in those numbers. "You make how much each month?" A lot of the "ruled by" is also in the laws and rules implemented that then reinforce behaviors and ability to interact. Personal post from earlier about stealing land from people with laws and money attacks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43214948 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43214948 And in the tools that can be brought to bear to punish those who resist. If Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Nvidia decide they want to hurt a specific member of American society, it's relatively easy to set up a chatbot that does nothing other than bombard that individual's every waking moment with endless spam, nonsense posts, irritating mailings, and other waste to punish them for resisting. It's far easier to gain access to world banking and ruin someone financially than it is for a normal citizen with normal people money access. Bezos literally burned the entire diaper industry to the group to buy Diapers.com and get his special diapers.