Musk clearly never had a shred of dignity because of that story where he was thrown down a flight of stairs for making fun of another childs father’s suicide. He was not yet a teenager then, even. Hard to grow up with dignity with the type of father who would marry is own step-daughter after raising her.

Zuckerberg we have less evidence for his youth and teen years, but by college he was building a site that was originally meant to rate how attractive women were, a la the Hot or Not of days of old. He would go on to say of the people who entrusted their data to him: “People just submitted it. I don’t know why. They ‘trust me’. Dumb fucks.” That scene from The Social Network where the girl wants him to know women don’t like him not because he’s a nerd, but because he’s an asshole is also relevant.

Bezos’ Amazon has literally always had a history of being so brutal to its employees that they famously cried at their desks, all the way back to pre-2010. Bezos has always been like this. His adopted father Miguel Bezos was likely a wealthy “refugee” from Cuba, running because, well, he couldn’t handle a world where the poor were on the same level as him. Further, before meeting Bezos, his mother had serious issues with alcoholism and separated from Jeff’s biological father who actually sounded pretty cool in some ways, as a guy who played unicycle hockey and tried to get into circus performance art.

Trump was similarly broken by his parents at a young age. Fred Trump was arguably worse than his son because he was actually halfway intelligent, but he taught Donald every terrible thing he knows. Trump’s lack of dignity or personal reflection is related directly to Daddy Issues.

None of them ever had a chance to grow up with a shred of dignity because they grew up in wealthy households whose parents pushed fucked ideologies on them early on.