We truly are in another robber baron era, only their reach and influence is even greater today.
We can’t have a true representative government, in which those elected work for each of us and know that they do, unless we stop people like Gates from having more say into what happens than any other citizen does. One person. One vote. To allow what we have now is to cede power to an oligarchy - with the rest of us being somewhat like serfs.
I must correct you. What we have is a Kleptocracy.
Rickefeller and Morgan never really told my grear grandparents how to live. The is moving America toward the setting of that adolescent dystopia that was The Hinger Games.