> We just instead started making billionaires by the thousand, and soon enough we can add trillionaires.

Didn’t we also get standards of living much higher than he would ever imagine? I think blaming everything on billionaires is really misguided and shallow.

It depends on how you value things. I'd prefer to have a surplus of time and a scarcity of gizmos, rather than a surplus of gizmos and a scarcity of time. Obviously basic needs being met is very important, but we've moved way beyond that as a goal, while somehow also kind of simultaneously missing it.