@djc it's not just him. Hughes, Henry Ford. Gates is not so flamboyantly evil, but his IP-first, market-incentives-uber-alles politics (Zuckerberg's too) have undermined global public health, both directly by preventing broader IP access and indirectly by making plausible the idea that vaccines are a greed-motivated conspiracy, and led to at-best unsuccessful if not outright destructive diversions in educational reform.

@djc Plus, these people obviously face information problems. It becomes harder and harder for their worldview not to be refracted through sycophants. Autocrats and plutocrats lose their capacity for good social judgment, even when their intentions remain sincerely prosocial, due to information problems, the fact that their advisors have so much to gain from titrating advice towards their self interest. If you believe incentives matter, they matter here too.

@djc (re relative comparisons, maybe! we'd have to see. but if plutocrats are going to perceive relative status in logarithmic terms, that's a preference structure we just can't afford to accommodate.)