"Opinion billionaires." Filthy rich people who send automobiles into outer space and oligarchs that give presents to judges who do not report them as the gifts they are. I like that phrase, "opinion billionaires." It describes them.
These are people who are so out of touch with the way we live that they might as well come from a different country. Effectively, they do come from a different country. Why in the world should we pay attention to them when they tell us what we should think, how we should live, or what we should vote for? They know so little about us.
Rebecca Solnit put it this way recently: "Being a billionaire tends to isolate you from the rest of humanity, and too often places you in an echo chamber of your own making; it's arguably a disqualification for participating in the affairs of ordinary people."
I hadn't quite thought of these people in those terms. They know so little about us and everything about themselves. There may not be much to "argue" about this as a disqualification for participating in the affairs of ordinary people.
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