Gates, Zuckerburg, Musk and Thiel are not Kleptocrats.
Frankly, neither are the Walmart children.
There are soft parrallels and kleptocracy does exist.
But this issue is about power asymmetry and markets etc.
It's a systematic problem.
The 'big problem' is that a lot of small fish in the market might be in the top 20% are making 'some money' from stocks, and will push back against rectifications, all the while not realizing that though they are 'getting a better deal than the bottom 80%' ... those above them, i.e. the 5%, 1% and 0.1% are getting gigantically better deals.
The 0.1% is screwing over the 1% as bad as the 1% is screwing over the 10% as bad as the 10% is screwing over the middle class as bad as the middle class is screwing over the working class.
I feel that this is true, and the 'natural result' of a system in which everyone believes they are 'doing much better than those below them' - but have no insight or information into the layers above to grasp how bad they are being screwed.
Middle class don't quite understand Doctor/Dentist pay, who don't understand Executive/Banker pay, who don't quite understand mega wealth income.
In Monaco, you can tell what 'class' people were by looking at them, and even if you wore a $2K suit, and were a high paid banker, you 'had a job' meaning you were still 'working class' to the 'true elite' there.
And by the way, the other greatest source of inequality is housing.
Everything I just said about housing is even more true: the first time owners think they are making bank, without realize the middle class is making more, and those with $3M homes even more.
When everyone is making more from their property investments, which are not productive, then the people paying the price are those with the least leverage, i.e. working class.
But politics is what it is, and you can basically never attack the middle class - while they are sympathetic to the 'working class', they're not going to actually really want to give up massive benefits - and - working class people are less likely to vote. This is a huge systematic problem in Canada right now, with the government pandering hard to 'middle class' who are effectively leveraging themselves over working people with money-printing that is being plowed into homes. It's not productive, it's just rearranging deck-chairs, with 1 more chair going up the stack every time they are rearranged.