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What would be great if these ultra rich people started to associate success not just with money but also with being a decent human being and giving back. Because just having shit lots of money is not my definition of being successful.

Ultra rich should make giving back a structural part of their lives and businesses.

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What you're talking about sounds a lot like the post-scarcity world that Gene Roddenberry envisioned in the Star Trek universe, where everyone has enough to live on, so social status is attained by prestige and doing admirable things (i.e. working for Starfleet). However, there's a lot of work to be done getting from here to there.

They generally do. However decent human being and giving back are not well defined terms and so they will often strongly disagree with whatever definition you happen to use.

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