Maybe India has to go through its Robber Baron stage. I certainly don’t think we should do anything about it.
I don't think I proposed doing anything about it. But I do think it is one of many signs that Indian culture is almost beyond hope of redemption. This in spite of the fact that there are many millions of gifted people there. The culture seems to me to have a history of being deeply fractured in many ways for centuries. You have to feel at some distance from your fellow citizens to carry on with such extravagance while hundreds of millions are in dire poverty.
I do not doubt that the American culture is now in the progress of developing those kinds of fractures. The civil war seems almost a narrow quarrel among neighbors, although an intense one for sure. We seem now to be moving away from each other in profound ways...and to despise each other, which I don't think was really the case in the civil war. I think we would have the potential of becoming an India except we won't last for centuries more, IMO.
But as to the Robber Barron comparison, I think it is an order of magnitude different. If the RB's had been cavorting at Newport during the great depression and if we had had mordern media and communications (as the Indians do now) to put it in front of our eyes, then the comparison would be more apts.
As to doing something about it, no, it certainly is nothing for us to mix in. But if a mob of impoverished Indians were to behead some of those living billionaire lifestyles, it would please me.