This is what happens when you let individuals in a society reach levels of wealth equivalent to millions of individual average citizens. They don't become philathropists, they become feudal lords, and those millions become dispoable property to be bought, sold, or discarded.

From Guardian article on the banal overpriced luxury strawberry :
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2025/mar/15/viral-strawberry-erewhon-los-angeles#img-4

>This was bad news for the current American empire: “We have reached a very late Roman western state where the 1% does not need the state to survive,” Kulikowski said. “If the US government stops being able to do much of anything, it stops to matter to them. That’s a real parallel.”