If you think that whole thing irks you, you ought to have heard Buffet's speech to a Senate breakfast a couple of years ago.
The theme was, "I won the ovary lottery . . ."
His premise was that he was born male, white, American, to good parents, etc, which meant he had advantages that made what he is today possible.
As if his being born any other way, with the same talents, might somehow have disqualified him from making millions in America.
The only real advantage that 'luck' played in was perhaps that he was born American. Few other country in the world affords you the opportunities you have here.
Buffet has terminal affluenza, and he's just to the right of Soros.
OBL's father was born poor, was blind in one eye and illiterate, but managed to acquire great wealth in a political/economic system that is rigid and repressive. The founder of IKEA was born in poverty in Sweden (Sweden has zero "death taxes") and managed to become one of the wold's wealthiest - darn those socialists.
The American dream was not that the extraordinary could build great wealth, but that the average guy, with average abilities could, through hard work at average jobs, provide a good life and measure of security for himself and his family. That was what distinguished us from the rest of the world.