Who are some people in powerful positions or 1%ers that are genuinely good people?

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Who are some people in powerful positions or 1%ers that are genuinely good people? - lemm.ee

Good as far as we know until they get Cosby’d

If they were genuinely good people they wouldn’t be in the 1%.

Being 1% is not just rich, not just disgustingly rich, you needed to have exploited BILLIONS of people for DECADES and had no moral qualms about it. If you did, you would have stopped long before you reached that high.

It’s like asking if any 1st degree murderers did it by accident.

That doesn’t sound like the 1%. There are 3.6 million 1%ers in the US alone, by definition. Being in the 1% might you very comfortable but it won’t necessarily make you an evil overlord. For that I suspect you need to be in the 0.001% (meaning there’s 3600ish in the US, a more manageable group of absolute bastard. There aren’t 3.6 million disgustingly rich people in the US.

Putting some numbers (for the US) here, from a recent Forbes article

Joining the top 1% requires a net worth of $11.6 million to $13.7 million

What Net Worth Puts You in the Top 1%, 5%, or 10%?

See how much net worth you need to join the top 1%, 5%, or 10% of Americans—and what it says about wealth, inflation, and Gen-Z’s financial future.

Forbes