Good as far as we know until they get Cosby’d
There are no good 1%ers. Doing philanthropy with your excessive fortune isn’t worthy of applause, it’s simply the easiest way to give. And more often than not they still do not. Using your influence (acquired through fortune) is hollow as hell too like why should we listen to you? Because you’re loaded?? Nah but thanks for the dono.
There are good rich people but they are rich in other resources, usually immaterial.
Also Cosby Cosby’d himself…
Queen Elizabeth II
I like Mark Cuban for the whole https://www.costplusdrugs.com/ thing he’s doing. I have no idea whether or not he’s a decent guy, but this is a decent thing to do, so I give him the benefit of the doubt.
Mark Cuban is the closest I can think of. Most of his wealth came from stocks he received when he sold his dot com business to Yahoo. He’s invested a bunch after that. Now he does some decent things like his at cost prescriptions. He definitely seems personable and understands that he is extremely lucky.
Closest I can think of is post-Microsoft Bill Gates, with the humanitarian/healthcare stuff he’s been involved in. He was a total piece of shit as Microsoft’s CEO, though, what with the aggressive anti-trust practices and all. Not that the ones that came after were much better (especially Ballmer).
What Gates is doing right now is a massive publicity stunt to make people believe he’s actually a “good person”. He is not. He is still a disgusting billionaire that contradicts everything he preaches.
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He is constantly buying farmland, to the point where he’s the biggest land owner in the whole US. This is seriously harming small farmers.
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He preaches about climate change and using cardboard straws while in his massive ($650M!) mega yacht
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The “humanitarian/healthcare” stuff he did, while helpful, was only done because he could use it as a tax writeoff. He wouldn’t have done it if it wasn’t the case.
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