With some noticeable exceptions.

I think that most people dream of being rich. They think of the wonderful life they could live and possibly all of the good they might be able to do. Being wealthy has no relationship to moral goodness; being rich or poor has little or nothing to do with being good or bad. The U.S. currently has 989 billionaires according to Forbes. If a person is a billionaire, there are only a couple of ways that he arrived at that plateau:

- He (or she) provided goods and services that much of the world is willing to pay to use.

- He is the descendant of someone who provided the same.

- He made a fortune via Bitcoin or the markets, starting small and going big.

One doesn’t generally become a billionaire by selling vegetables or being a professor. We still live in the generation that can associate the names of many of the mega-rich with the companies they founded. But being rich doesn’t necessarily mean being good. I got a healthy chuckle upon hearing about Bill Gates trying to model himself after Mr. Rogers. Apparently, he went so far as to have his people buy specialty mannequins to try on potential combinations to see if it gave the right image that he wished to sell to the public. His apparent Epstein activities and stories of Russian ladies of the evening should have encouraged him to try to be more like Eddie Murphy in “Mr. Robinson’s Neighborhood.”

If one looks through the Forbes 400, he would see a lot of names that he doesn’t know. These are apparently very wealthy people who know how to keep a low profile. They no doubt enjoy and deploy their money as they see fit but away from the cameras and newspapers. Michael Dell surfaced when he made the largest donation to the U.S. government in history: $6.25 billion to set up Trump Accounts for children being born today in the United States. Many fine hospital and university buildings enjoy the names of billionaires. Hadassah Hospital........

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