[carnagii]

In the U.S. a large segment of the population (100M+) is told over-and-over again that they should rely on the expertise and charity of the elite in business and politics to take care of them.

Examples like this just show how naive and detached from reality that self appointed elite is and how little value their "charity" provides.

[viraptor]

"self appointed elite" is a weird bag of people, which would likely contain Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, and many random CEOs in between the spectrum. Their approach/value is radically different, so it's generalising here useful?