&quot;because he&#x27;s empathetic to people&quot;<p>Given how easily manipulated people are, and us being people, you may be a little over optimistic in your evaluation of reality.<p>Adding another level of indirection nobody cares whats accomplished, just whats signaled.<p>So you&#x27;re cool because he&#x27;s got good PR that signals well, but assuming the world will be OK because he actually is doing stuff.  That might not turn out so well.<p>Note I&#x27;m not interesting in arguing about Bill in particular, but as a general problem across the entire culture, because, after all, thats how inequality is measured.