Say you’re on a yacht with your principal and they had a few tequilas, and then they’re like, “Oh, come on. Join us.” Ultimately, you have to remember that you are there because they’re paying you. It’s a job. They’re not your friend. Obviously, you need to share compassion and empathy. Sometimes your boss needs you to be a shoulder to cry on.
Well, if it’s impossible to measure there’s not much point arguing about it. The other rhetorical questions I can actually address.
Knowing what government budgets look like, I’m going to guess some, but not a game-changing amount. Most of their money comes from their money.
Probably. Before cars there was a lot of rail barons, so it’s not like they needed that to stay rich. As far as I can tell that sort of urban plan was a stupid idea that had broad currency in the midcentury.
You can be sure that everyone possessing more than a 100 million has a skeleton in the cupboard.
People have literally won that much from lottery tickets.
As far as I can tell billionaires do the same thing in a more complicated way, and then claim it was because of their genius and not chance. Even the ex-Soviet oligarchs had the same probability of going out a window as their late rivals did.