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It shouldn't be. It should be the rallying cry of the last 50 years. It's like you are saying that water tastes funny.
Yeah, I know, but telling them to stop when they do something good isn't going to stop them from doing something bad. We have to make the best out of a bad situation until we can make the bad situation better.
I'm all for updating policies and making sure the future is brighter than the past, but there is a statute of limitations. We can't just reach back as far as we want in time and start prosecuting based on what we hope will be future regulations. The money is gone. Don't worry, they keep printing more of it, though.
Billionaires and celebrities almost all have some form of narcism. They love the attention. Again, we have to make the best of a bad situation. Stroke their ego for doing good, and maybe they'll do more of it. If every time a billionaire did something shitty we just kept it out of the papers and lets the courts handle it, but then flooded the papers when a billionaire did something positive, I bet we'd see a change. Granted, I think thats a terrible idea, and the public should be made aware of the issues when they are relevant, but I also think we go a bit too far in over-publicizing the bad and under-publicizing the good.
If you beat me up and took my wallet 30 years ago, and then I saw you in Africa doing humanitarian work, yeah, I wouldn't be mad. I'd say, "damn, it looks like they got it together. Good work." I might even go over and make an act of forgiveness. I have a very hard time believing people can change, so when I see it, I do try to acknowledge it.
This is a big thing on many fronts. We let perfect be the enemy of good and ultimately we end up with a movement that is not serious.
Or if they change for the wrong reason , or have ulterior motives which gates has in all his charity work