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Reading the TV Tropes on Merchant Princes, I was wondering if Mafia dons and gangsters also qualified as variations on the tropes, creating power, at least underworld power, through their own financial means. Or do they have to have respectable positions in society? As a side note, Corporate CE Os have considerable political and social clout—-are Bill Gates and the Koch Brothers Merchant Princes?