people are averse to hating billionaires because the system is built on the assumption that they deserve that money, so if billionaires act unethically or even illegally, there is more often criticism to government for not being free market enough to allow them to succeed more. their success, their amassing of wealth, is seen as a net positive for everyone. any time that success is at our expense, if they do better while we do worse, criticism away from them or even government starts to kick in because the only way for government to stop them from screwing over workers and consumers is regulation. this is counter to free market capitalist belief and gets called socialist when many regulations one could advocate for were in place before the 80s. so finding the cause of economic policy problems is hard, finding the policy solutions is even harder, and explaining those both to the general public in a way to create meaningful action is impossible when leadership is lobbied away from looking at policy solutions that hurt profits and actually help workers and consumers. so all sorts of cognitive dissonance kicks in and we can get taken for a ride in many directions where the problems and solutions at least seem more intuitive.
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