@Gurre Here's the thing the less-than-philanthropic billionaires fail to realise, yet their robber-barron forefathers knew.

Let's imagine you're a mega-wealthy tycoon.

For argument's sake, in this hypothetical example, you're a steel magnate.

You just cemented your fortune by selling the forerunner of US Steel to JP Morgan: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Carnegie

You donate a portion of your wealth to build a major music hall. Naturally, it carries your name: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Hall

Over 100 years later, people won't remember the shitty things you did.

Like that time you installed new equipment at your steel mill to improve productivity, and then cut your workers' wages. So they formed a union because they were fed up with making more steel for less money. So you locked them out. So they formed a picket line. So you hired an army of private security guards to break the picket line and let scab labour into the plant. But the steelworkers fought them off. So you called the governor to call in the state guard, with some of the laid off unionised workers getting killed in the process: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_strike

Or that other time when you and around 50 of your wealthy buddies owned an exclusive hunting club on a property with a dam you were too cheap to maintain, despite your immense wealth. So the dam burst, releasing 14.55 million cubic meters of floodwaters to a town downstream, killing more than 2000 people: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnstown_Flood

Instead, they'll associate your name with the performing arts.

And when schoolkids go on excursions of your music hall, they'll learn how you were a great patron of the arts, who enriched the public realm with this magnificent building.

And they probably won't hear about some of those other unfortunate unpleasantness that you may have been infamous for in your lifetime.