Go on, get it out of the way and call me the silly names before we begin: bootlicker, stan, fangirl. Tell me I’ll never be one (true), that none of them know my name (probably true), and that if they did know my name they wouldn’t like me (untrue, I’m delightful).

Good. Now, to business: The current habit of attacking “billionaires” as some problem to be solved — and, more specifically, as the source of all of America’s contemporary problems — is illiterate, intemperate, ungrateful, frivolous, and, above all, dangerous.

A representative question — advanced with all the rhetorical confidence and tragic folly of John Cleese asking, “What have the Romans ever done for us?” — is this:

What do billionaires contribute to society? — Harry Eccles (@Heccles94) March 5, 2026

What do billionaires contribute to society?

— Harry Eccles (@Heccles94) March 5, 2026

Really? Really? I suppose if you believe that the only useful institution in our universe is the government —........

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