I'll accept that for certain people, not for all billionaires.
- Sheldon Adelson threw all his money behind Israel.
- J Paul Getty threw all his money behind owning art.
- Warren Buffett mostly seems to be interested in making more money.
- Melinda Gates apparently convinced Bill to "do something useful with it" like cure malaria
- Cornelius Vanderbilt imagined a world without rules and acted accordingly
- Jeff Bezos and Paul Allen mostly seem(ed) interested in acquiring toys
Julia Philips has a "Yiddish" saying in You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again: "People regard wealth three ways - as blood, to nourish; as semen, to create; and as shit to be thrown away."
Elon Musk wants to be adulated because he was never loved as a kid. Elon Musk is Buddy Pine as Syndrome.