Yeah, one only need look at the multi-billionaires focused on growing their wealth instead of solving the many easily solvable problems of humanity like clean water and starvation.

I guess it's mostly a matter of what framework the society put in place. We incentivise economical achievements, optimisations, tech. The common theme is making wealth. As long as that's the case, you can't expect these problems to be solved. Humanity/societal frameworks have to start incentivising the right problems.

These so called billionaires have become billionaires because the society and economy are set up that way and they got good at this economical game.

I mean, do we really need to assume a preconfigured basis in order for wealth and power to be “incentivized”? They’re pretty self-incentivizing and built into human societies. On the other hand, I think you’d have to figure out some pretty radical rules and enforcement strategies to decouple the incentives from wealth and power. That presumably would require both wealth and power. Seems internally inconsistent.

Humanity has come so far and I'm sure it's possible to do it. I'm not saying wealth and power are bad. The ways of getting them are what's causing this. If you can become a billionaire by focussing on starvation, that could be a good one.

Today you are incentivised to get rich by making a technological innovation like Facebook. Facebook is a great money making business idea, however is it a life saver as much as solving clean water? I guess not. Unfortunately, we prioritised and incentivised the business models of Facebook and that's where we are.

FYI, I'm not picking on Facebook, it could be any big company today.

I think everyone struggles with sin. The wealthy are (mostly) just uniquely empowered and visible. But most people off the street would probably behave about the same if they had the same power.

That said, sociopaths probably are particularly well-equipped to become very wealthy.