The average person seems to have an entirely skewed view of just how wealthy and powerful billionaires are. Much less how powerful they are when they congregate on islands or at Bohemian Grove to plot their rulership. "Rich person" means your dentist with the nice truck and the $900k house. For too many people, that's the supposed promise of capitalism. A nice suburban house and a big car. It's being a small to medium business owner. CEOs of international corporations is such an unimaginable quality that it may as well not exist. Instead, they can only imagine capitalism offering relatively staggered income distributions that all seem fair.

People seem perfectly capable of understanding socialism as some kind of entirely horizontal poverty though. I guess they're able to imagine losing everything because some evil scary commie took it all. They have a hard time understanding the difference in stature between themselves and the ruling classes because it's so invisible and unimaginably vast. It's not so vast to be a middle management dork and imagine becoming broke.