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The narrator comments off-handedly that "There was something obscene about a billionaire's being optimistic and aggressive and cunning" (67). What does this mean?
The narrator means that billionaires who are capable—or whose wealth was established through some amount of effort, regardless of how unsavory—are offensive. With billionaires who happen into their money through chance or inheritance, there can be some amount of forgiveness for their exorbitant wealth because they did not commit their lives to accumulating it. The commitment to accumulating wealth is what is obscene, and the narrator also suggests must necessarily be aggressive and opportunistic, and...
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