Keep seeing people comment that if they were billionaires, they’d be the good kind, who used their money to help society.
And I have to keep pointing out, you don’t get to be a billionaire if you’re a person who’d help society. You don’t accumulate the billion dollars: you used it helping society.
@dariaphoebe @corbden This isn’t as silly as it sounds.
At this time in history, $1 billion is an arbitrary number that roughly meets the point where powerful people either become benefactors or focus on their wealth for the rest of their lives.
@dariaphoebe @corbden I love “the exception that proves the rule” candidates because they’re so questionable and rare, but here’s one —
Bezos’s ex-wife has the billionaire dollars but not the billionaire mindset. She may prove to be biggest benefactor in our lifetimes.
Melinda Gates and her influence on her ex-husband in the Gates foundation may be another blurrier example.
As a general concept I am fascinated by good people inside evil teams, and what would’ve happened without them
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