The Power of Politics and Philanthropy

When you are a billionaire, this potential dual purpose of a quote unquote hobby becomes much more extreme. Winning a political position personally can obviously open the doors to influence over all sorts of things. This is an enormous power. The opportunity for corruption and conflicts of interest exists. It's so broad that it would be either willfully ignorant or willfully misleading to pretend that out of thousands of people doing this, literally no one put their hand in the cookie jar."