>"I really don't understand what the point of being so rich is if it doesn't let you tell a moron like Trump to fuck off."

Because they aren't really that rich. It's all a house of cards built on numbers in a spreadsheet, vague IP valuations, and server racks. The people controlling the true wealth are getting exactly what they want in the form of inflation on commodity and asset prices.

You must remember that the current top-of-the-top are fundamentally psychologically broken people. They started as emotionally stunted weirdos, got bullied for it, became more reclusive for it, built their mega-businesses with maniacal fixation, and now have huge sums of money to inflict their psychological traumas on the world.

they got rich by wanting to get rich and make money; that's the entire motivation and it doesn't have a ceiling.

you don't just get rich and stop, it doesn't stop for these people. They aren't rich enough. They aren't powerful enough.

Most folks at that table with Trump are way beyond the joy of creation; they're playing politics now, and their game is the competition with the 200 other hyper-elite for positional vying.

Don't discount that these guys might be true believers.

It's a big cult and you ain't in it.