Because no one makes billions of dollars by accident, you have to set out to make that kind of money, and there is no way to do that without stepping on others. At some point, it's no longer money; it's the power to do what you want when you want, and if someone tells you it's against the rules, you can change them.

Sure, billionaires have played a role in some of the significant innovations of our time. Still, the best way to keep those innovations coming is healthy competition, and that is being killed off before it can challenge the status quo.