whether Bill Gates or Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos or Warren Buffett or George Soros or Michael Bloomberg or Sam Walton or Andrew Carnegie or Howard Hughes or J. Paul Getty or J. P. Morgan or John D. Rockefeller or Leland Stanford, they are using philanthropy not only to launder their reputations as exploitative assholes, but to make sure they have an “invisible hand” to guide the future of the arts, education, and political thought.