[reincarnate0x14]

> the richest people in america got that way by creating enormous amounts of value and then capturing lots of it for themselves.

This may have been the case through the 1960s but post 1970s American is very much back on the crypto-aristocrat track with people inheriting vast wealth or being given jobs as money managers or financiers due to family influence and then rent-seeking the hell out of anything that smells like money.