I did not lump the wealthy all together. I spent a fair amount of time describing wealth that wasn’t Trumpist or even substantially exploitative of anyone but themselves. As a said, I riffed Rump only slightly. You took that, ran with it, and ignored the majority of what I said; at least, that’s how I feel. I get that a lot, it’s my fault. I mumble a bit.
So, without allusion and without taking much from a broad palette of hatred for the rich, let me state it plainly: the rich work themselves into a corner the more wealthy they are. That corner has a Rockefeller flavor, a Carnegie flavor, a Koch flavor, a Trump flavor, whatever flavor the name is. They’re rich enough they earn their own flavor even when they’ve stopped earning anything else.
With increasing wealth they will reach a point where they cannot be effective with their wealth except to create an authoritarian corporate hive and keep growing. The hours in the day do not increase with their wealth so they cannot do more actual work. They must turn to more value-added methods to make their hours more effective.
They buy labor and plant, then go on to buy out their competitors labor and plant, then go on to put a stop to others building labor and plant to build as close to a monopoly as they can. There they sling overpriced, mediocre goods, like Bill Gates. His company and the choads that he brought up to keep it going (who themselves have gone on to be very successful athletic team owners 
) have sucked more value out of the global economy from lost work hours than any one government could have. But he’s been working on malaria, so that’s all good.
Like Warren Buffett they may become a pure investor and buy a company like Precision Cast Parts, a Portland company whose reputation among their employees is among the worst of anyone I’ve ever heard. PCP (or whatever they’re called now) is incredibly profitable because they squeeze their employees for as much labor as they can give, denying them any life, discriminating freely against women and minorities (for reduced wages at that workload, if nothing else)… and what do they make? War shit. But yes, they’re relentlessly profitable, so go Warren Buffett! And he gave nothing to his kids and grandkids that someone with four less zeros wouldn’t give them! What a sweetheart.
They may play on the celebrity of wealth to make themselves a brand. If it ends there, you get Anderson Cooper, a bland media personality who brings some awareness to causes between daily rounds of sensationalized, fluffy snoozery and other bullshit.
I can say bad things about George Soros too, if you like. Talk about a guy trying to buy his way into the good graces of the kind of rich people who try very hard to believe in democracy so long as that democracy doesn’t reflect the economic dysfunctions at their core.
Even three examples of not-Trumps who aren’t as evil as Trump don’t look too great given the control they exercise. They’re still a blight. Where they’ve become hivelords of corporate monopolies, they are hivelords of corporate monopolies. Where they’ve become a rabid champion of reliably high profitability, that’s still what they are. Where they’ve hit their limits and haven’t figured out how to be truly effective by fighting directly against their class, they’re pretty useless at keeping wealth in check.
I apologize for taking this too personally and for taking so long to get back. Work has been stressful, the Elsewhere was moving on a kind of a vague timetable, and I’ve been puking up jelly-like flu-cous for three days now.
I hope you are all doing better than that.
