Guess he took after his ancestor who liked to play with boys on Capri.
Yeah, his great-grandfather, during the last part of the 1800s.
But the difference was, at least his decadent great-grandfather built something, while this flabby descendant lived only for hedonism, consuming capital rather than creating weath.
It sort of reminds one of the primitives.
One wonders if he's still alive--
Arms of Krupp was after all written a long time ago--but if he is, he probably weighs 300+ pounds, sags a lot, and wears perfume. At least that's the way he seemed headed, when the book was written.