A side effect of capitalism.

[Wiener]

http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2012/01/19/carlyle_founder_david_rubenstein_donates_millions_to_fix_quake_damaged_washington_monument.html

Thank you Mr Billionaire for your donation to your countries famous monument.  We everyday American's appreciate it greatly.

[yoyo]

On December 18, 2007, David Rubenstein purchased the last privately owned copy of the Magna Carta at Sotheby's auction house in New York for $21.3 million. He has lent it to the National Archives in Washington D.C. In 2011.