Asinine to reduce "wealth" to "quality of middle class consumer goods available", as if a Soros or a Trump's top priority is having the most accurate wristwatch. Rockefeller was able to, for instance, insert multiple of his family into high political office. He had a retinue of servants available that freed his time essentially to his complete discretion. He was able to personally finance and set the priorities of multiple educational institutions. His charitable foundation had / has its fingers in multiple social movements for good and ill, maintaining influence in what is likely to be perpetuity.
But you've got air conditioning and MRIs, congratulations (Rockefeller lived to be 97 without those btw).
Rockefeller loved to 97, but his daughter died at 13 months of a disease that doesn’t exist in America or Europe anymore. Childhood mortality was high, and we’ve substantially reduced that in 2022.
I can’t speak for Rockefeller or for you, but the pain of losing a child is worse than anything I can imagine. If I could trade influencing some election for the lives of my children, I will always pick my children.
But you've got air conditioning and MRIs, congratulations (Rockefeller lived to be 97 without those btw).