I like this:
The job of billionaires is to live a better life, and while doing that pay for it to go from being an expensive luxury to a cheap and universal commonplace.
People moan about “trickle down” economics, often claiming that it doesn’t even happen. I only have to look at my flat screen TV, upon which I am now happily watching cricket, to know that this is wrong.
Also, we all get to laugh at Jeff Bezos tomorrow when he flies about the Karman line in his giant space dildo.
I’m pretty sure that bicycle mechanics – even in the 1900s – were never “rich”.
Is there a precedent for this sort of thing? The only one I can think of off the top of my head is Charles Rolls, who after co-founding Rolls-Royce gained the distinction of being the first Briton to die in a plane crash.