He inherits money, buys stuff, that stuff goes up in value, so he buys more stuff, the value rises again. He goes from wealthy to very wealthy, so he buys more stuff, that stuff goes up in value too. Someone else is designing and engineering this stuff, someone else is making this stuff, someone else is running the firms that make this stuff, someone else is marketing this stuff, he’s just the guy that keeps buying the firms that make the stuff and declaring himself the reason of their successes. He’s never made anything successful, he’s not an engineer or a designer, he’s just a guy that buys things. He gets to a point where his every financial movement will generate more money than it costs simply because it is him that is moving, he has crossed a threshold where no matter what he does it will generate revenue and he will get more wealthy. If he has the chance he will buy the financial institutions that lend capital, becoming linked to capital itself, ensuring that he makes money from money itself, every time someone else creates value his value goes up too.

Now the world listens as if he has the answers, and he has even come to believe that he has all the answers. He had so much money that he bought public opinion, and it looks very much like he also purchased a political position, at the very least the elected officials must recognise his financial might and act as if they know what harm he can do them. He bought the method of the message so that he could tailor the message everybody gets, he bought the firms that make the news media and he is the editor of the information, he bought the technologies that force that message into every feed. He bought those that make the legislation because he bought the perspective of those that put the pressure on those that make the legislation. He bought the resistance to the mainstream because he wanted to buy all the perspectives that get discussed. He bought the establishment and those that argue the loudest with the establishment to further marginalise those that he cannot buy. He pushes world leaders around, he is too wealthy to be restrained by a government or any law.

People are following this guy, believing his words because they think he has wisdom. I suppose he’s bought devotion and belief now too, it looks like he is more important in people’s lives than a president or PM because he cannot be ignored. People are stupid, they equate wealth with ability, remember the first thing I said “he inherited wealth” he did not have an idea and do a thing he witnessed an idea that didn’t have enough capital and he pretended to support it for a while so that he could take over it and pretend that he started it. What he has is wealth, what he did was to turn big wealth into vast wealth into unimaginable wealth and now into disgusting wealth. Wisdom he bypassed, empathy he felt as a weakness, you he does not care about you are merely an object he wishes to manipulate…. 

Everything I’ve stated could apply to any super rich person, you pick yours and apply the preceding description.

Paul S Wilson