and affluenza: to someone with several dozen or hundred million dollars, money isn't something to buy someone with: it's something to build a legacy: they actually have enough money for several generations of heirs to spend a million a day and still stay (ahead even if all markets and stock exchanges collapsed); so Koch's response to landing on a business jet and leaping through the 20-foot wall of flame it produced was "I'm going to die someday: I want to change America to benefit oligarchs like me!"

they make foundations staffed by acolytes, and see everything in their moneymaking, perhaps even technocratic worldview (Gates Foundation, anyone? "you! poor dusky country/student! you will technologize. you will adopt GMOs, evaluations, bottom-line calculation, and laptops. we are advanced and superior. you will submit. it is logical"