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You're not wrong, but the context here makes this statement entirely different. The billionaire expects to continue to be a billionaire, but it is we who need to expect less and be happy for it. We wouldn't need to accept less in the first place if he weren't so greedily hoarding the fruits of exploited labor. But that's not negotiable for him. The idea itself is absurd to him on the same level as unicorns propelling their way across the sky by way of rocket-farting fairy dust.
All the more reason for him to stop hoarding the fruits of exploited labor that he won't live to enjoy anyway. He has the power to change the world such that we don't need to expect less and have a tougher world. Rather than actually doing anything about what he's predicting, he's just telling the future of humanity to deal with it. He's a selfish prick and I hope his death is painful with proportion to the pain his existence upon us is, has been, and will be for generations to come.
These people won't get it. They're literally defending his statement and it's fkin crazy!
But he apparently do since he still move his mouth, and it's not the kind of worry that let him do a final conscience audit followed by finally doing something good, but the one where he tells us the stereotypical "eat less peasant".