Are the .1% are shooting themselves in the foot by hording?

[pbrower2a]

No. What does this even mean? The rich don't owe anyone anything. If you don't like it get on their level.

You wish you were rich like them.

If anything, some of the super-rich act as if the rest of us owe them everything. We are not far from the point at which survival is a privilege whose enjoyment is a contest of who can suffer the most on their behalf. Only problem with that -- survival is no privilege but instead a bane.

That is if Donald Trump is representative. See also medieval lords.