“The same system that facilitated their prosperity through the rule of law and good economic stewardship also constrains them—as it does all of us. But hell hath no fury like a broligarch who doesn’t get his way.”
– Sociologist and
Capital without Borders (2020) author
Brooke Harrington, on the rise of antidemocratic politics among
male tech billionaires. “They see any form of constraint as illegitimate,” she writes of the likes of Elon Musk, David Sachs, and Peter Thiel. “Rather than participate in the compromise and turn-taking that are second nature in democratic societies, they say, ‘Don’t you know who I am?’”
