I've observed that billionaires tend to have internalized this quote from Steve Jobs:

Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.

Billionaires realize that the world is pliable. With enough pressure applied to an endeavor (either through effort, application of capital, or rousure of public support), sufficiently resourceful people really can change the world.

Contrast that with the rest of us who are more likely to assume the state of the world as static, or given.

(Source: have worked with 2 billionaires.)