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The way I see it is they've got more incentive as rational actors to promote security and equality. What is interfering with that is irrational primal instincts that make some of them want to hoard wealth and attack those who are physically or culturally different from them.
More billionaires supported a candidate who promised to tax their unrealized gains than they sided with Trump. Trumps billionaires just happened to capture enough social media to tilt things his way.
Oh yeah I agree there.
And I admit the original comment that started mine in your conversation was too broad. There are enlightened business interests who understand that security and equity is good for business in the long term. I did undergraduate business administration studies, and they teach DEI. Not because it's the ethical thing to do, but because it is good for the bottom line in the long run. Especially in a diverse globalized economy.
But I also get their knee jerk reaction about the media. Billionaires operating on those primal instincts have captured a lot of it, and it is frustrating.