lol I did take that as sarcasm.
To clarify using an example of fate:zero:
There are two things that must work together:
1. There is the type that must live for the rest of the people. It is a successful persons duty to provide and protect for their people. This kind of person would be like Buffet.
2. The second is the type that must be as greedy as possible, and as successful as possible because it provides people with the example to do the same.
One provides a portion of the people with the faith and strength to carry on, and make it through the hardships.
The other provides the people who have opportunity with the strength to seize it.
In the case of the lvmh pres, he is the latter. His brand is strengthened by his ability to spend money, because the other people who have money and spend it on luxury, want to emulate the kind of person who has tons of money to spend as well. It's an image thing.
However, I do believe that a person with tons of money is better served in the image department by paying the taxes and working around it rather than making it seem like he doesn't have enough. A rich man would laugh at the tax hike and pay even more than requested.
