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Maybe the first generation wealthy, like William Gates Jr, but it looks like the inheritors of amazing wealth don't know that. They appear to think they just deserve it, based on some magical criteria.


They know that any usage of their money and assets requires a counterparty.


I wonder if that is due to how they were raised. Maybe that's how their minds cope with that situation.


How many monarchs fully believed in the Divine Right of Kings, that their rule comes from divine authority.


None. Just to state the obvious. If you are in for the fight, you do know the rules, so you know that there is no divine authority coming for your support.


Magical criteria and private schools. That's where this thinking is honed....




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