because research is from germany and america have analyzed the tween to protect me to sing plating ill musk marx and bill gates and have found that they do see themselves and the world very differently to the rest of us we find that the $100.00 richest members of the tech world reveal distinctive attitudes that set them apart from both the general population and from other wealthy elites as a group they are meritocratic lee inclined yet their position in a democratic system is contradictory as a result of their enormous wealth they have disproportionate influence over how discretionary income is spent. well the 7 most valuable u.s. tech companies to include apple amazon and facebook with a combined worth of $3.00 trillion dollars in 2020 the research says that those that run them are all big proponents as we heard of meritocracy positions of power are based on proven ability to harvey talked to the office about the findings. the 1st thing is that we really wanted to see if we grouped these people together and they talk in a distinctive way and that's what we could see and we could use and we use