Not all see this as a good thing, however, and the ubiquity of charitable concern and political activity can drive some ultra-wealthy crazy, such as one retired CEO of a Fortune 100 company I interviewed over breakfast in Jackson Hole town square. “My assessment of Jackson is that it’s full of type A personalities with not enough to do, so there’s [environmental/political] controversy because these people are sitting around, and they have opinions and they write letters to the editor, and they organize in various subgroups.
