In the news industry, we say there's a trend when three similar events happen in close proximity to one another.

This week, the world was treated to images of former U.S. president Barack Obama frolicking in the Caribbean with billionaire Richard Branson.

Last month, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau vacationed on private island in the Bahamas owned by the Aga Khan, the very wealthy spiritual head of Ismaili Muslims.

Trudeau is following in in his father's footsteps.

Shortly after becoming prime minister in 1968, Pierre Trudeau wanted a swimming pool at 24 Sussex Drive, and relied on Liberal millionaires to pay for it.

Around the same time that Trudeau was in the Bahamas, interim leader of the Conservatives Rona Ambrose was vacationing on a yacht owned by Calgary oil and mining tycoon Murray Edwards.

His net worth is in the $2-billion range.

Edwards is the controlling shareholder in the company that owns the Mount Polley mine. It was the site of a tailing-pond rupture in 2014 that contaminated the drinking water supply in the town of Likely.

Obama's successor in the White House, Donald Trump, also has a fondness for billionaires.

According to CBS News, seven members of Trump's inner circle and cabinet have a combined worth of $11 billion.

Is it any wonder that so many average folks think the game is rigged in favour of the rich?

For more on that, read this article about former U.S. labor secretary Robert Reich's last book, Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few.