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Heard of Richard Branson? He has. He also owns Necker island.

Because he's kind of immature, like a kid.

Why is wanting to have his own Island immature?

Only giants own islands

None of us should be land owners. Stewards maybe. Unless there's enough to go round.

The fact that there isn't enough to go round is why we do have land ownership. See also: Tragedy of the Commons, et bloody cetera.

Richard Branson, Elon Musk. Even Larry, Sergey and Eric recently acquired a fighter jet.

Then you've got Silvio Berlusconi, who bought himself the Prime Ministership of Italy and spent the whole time having what he called "Bunga Bunga Parties", which is closer to my fantasy at sixteen than my fantasy at nine, but it'll do.

Actually Silvio was "forced" into politics by the demise of his protector, Bettino Craxi (who, incidentally, was instrumental in engineering Silvio's rise to riches). He was into bunga-bunga before, he just carried on despite his 70+ years.

His "billionaire behaviour" was more about buying or building outrageous McMansions around the country, which is typical of his original background (a property developer with shady links to the mafia).