The anti-democracy motives of the robber barons of the last Gilded Age led to two world wars, a global economic crash in 1929, and the Great Depression.

Billionaires build world wars, climate refugee crises, and famine.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/maddieberg/2019/04/02/more-than-a-dozen-of-europes-wealthiest-billionaires-and-their-families-had-nazi-ties/?sh=b83e6eb60154

https://www.haaretz.com/life/books/2022-04-21/ty-article-magazine/the-nazi-billionaires-who-made-a-killing-during-the-holocaust/00000180-5bee-d718-afd9-dffe4abe0000

https://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-billionaire-selling-putins-war-ukraine-11669994410

More Than A Dozen European Billionaires—Linked To BMW, L’Oréal, Bosch—Have Families With Past Nazi Ties

The Reimann family was far from alone in its ties with the Nazi party. A number of European business families, some of them now worth billions of dollars, profited off of the Third Reich.

^{Madeline Berg (Forbes)}