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There does not exist a good person who is also a billionaire.
Yes, they can do good things. Mark Cuban has done some good things, but a good person would feel burdened by having too much money and would be compelled to use it to help others. I think you can be a good person and still want a super-easy life for yourself, but a billion dollars is way more than you need to fulfill that goal.
Billionaires are symptoms of a failed economic system. Under the current system you don't become a billionaire by doing good things.
There are no good people who are billionaires. Stop looking for excuses to make them good people.
Do you mean like Melinda Gates and MacKenzie Scott?
If you gave the goodest person in the world a billion dollars, you'd technically have a good person who was a billionaire, so my declaration would be wrong. But only for as long as it takes them to get rid of it.
I don't know about Melinda Gates (literally haven't heard anything), but MacKenzie Scott does seem to be burdened by the money at least somewhat and has been shoveling it away.
But if you compare, JK Rowling couldn't bear being a billionaire, and it turns out that she's a world-class asshole. Maybe if you're MacKenzie Scott rich, it's just hard to give the money away quickly, and we'll see her end up with less than a billion however long that takes. Otherwise, I think she's got to be at least as much of an asshole as Rowling.
I don't know either of them personally, but I have met one of them. They seemed like a good person, if not a little naive and/or dumb to the world around them. I do agree with most of your points though.
you'd technically have a good person who was a billionaire, so my declaration would be wrong
And if we instead create a program of hyper inflation so that even minimum wage workers become billionaires overnight, the world will be filled with bad people? Or perhaps this idea is so simplistic as to be meaningless.
There are no good or bad people. There are only good and bad deeds.
I will cherish always the day Oprah tried to get the Olympics in Chicago and the city showed up and told her to her face in protest FUCK YOU.
I'm not sure if she ever been back.
Chicagoans loath Oprah with a passion.
This cunt gave the antivax idiots a platform.
FUCK OPRAH!
Oprah is a fkn blight on our country. She burdened us with dr oz and dr phil, two absolute pieces of shit.
She also platformed John of God, a South American mass rapist.
Do we know if Oprah is one too? I don't know much about her. But it seems shes been awfully close to a lot of horrible people
Behind the bastards did a couple episodes on her.
6 I think.
She's a monster enabler and opportunist. Not sure she's as horrible, but she definitely has narcissistic qualities.
That's not really the vibe I've gotten from her. I mean she has her fingers in a lot of horrific pies. Simply a blight unto the world. I've heard her called the mother of demons and frankly not far off. But from everything I've seen (so far) it's not that she's personally involved in any of this, it's just that she didn't give a shit. She wanted the ratings. She wanted the story. She didn't care if the story was true. She didn't care if the story had horrible consequences. She didn't care if people got hurt. She didn't care if her fans were literally handed to a rapist because of her stories. All she cared about was moving those dials and everything else was immaterial to her . She just doesn't give a fuck. Which might be worse. I don't know.
At some point, the realization kicks in that what you're doing is causing harm, no matter how far down the road. When you decide to keep going anyway, that's your moment of sitting at the table with the nazis. Doesn't matter if you're totally removed from the evil doings, you're helping, and you know you're helping. And you're okay with it.