> David Nasaw, who has written biographies of Andrew Carnegie, William Randolph Hearst, and Joseph P. Kennedy, “This new species of rich men needed some rationale, some moral justification for the accumulation of this wealth. They needed, in a very visceral, intimate sense, a sign that their wealth was not a matter of chance or crime or robbery, that they were not simply robber barons, but that what they were doing was beneficial to all of mankind.”
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/billionaires-psychology-tech-politics-1235358129/
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