>its more accurate to stay that people are starting to
>understand that the super rich are not the saviors that we
>once thought they were..that hyper-philanthropy is a shell
>game where the super rich get to pretend to solve problems
>that they themselves have created, and use that as a PR shield
>while they rip us all off.

wrt Howard Schultz. I feel like in 2004, even 2008, people might have been responsive to a billionaire talking about how he was going to use the same skills as a CEO to fix the country using vanilla platitudes and vague nonpartisan phrasing.

Nobody wants to hear this now, though.