The most bizarre aspect of all this is that a good percentage of working class folk still admire billionaires and still vote for policies that enable the parasitic rich to get still richer. On a planet with finite resources, that is beyond belief.

https://policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/carbon-billionaires-the-investment-emissions-of-the-worlds-richest-people-621446

"The world’s richest people emit huge and unsustainable amounts of carbon and, unlike ordinary people, 50% to 70% of their emissions result from their investments. New analysis of the investments of 125 of the world’s richest billionaires shows that on average they are emitting 3 million tonnes a year, more than a million times the average for someone in the bottom 90% of humanity."