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You should read up on her history, how she came up, and what she's done with her wealth so far. You assume she moved today, and hasn't always been there, and that assumption may be a failed test all its own. Even just reading the article hints at this.
Billionaires have publicists. Forbes itself was basically made to glorify the ultra wealthy. Every last part of her story is sanitized for the public, I think the Walmart family were actually the trail blazers of the practice
A billionaire isn't a person. They're an avatar for their wealth. I mean that literally - they are slaves to their own dragon hoard.
Their wealth isn't real, it's speculative - so if a Walmart heir gets drunk on video and it goes viral, on paper their whole family loses money on paper. As do the other shareholders...aka, the other billionaires.
And so, they don't go out in public without careful preparation - instead, the ultra wealthy spend most of their life in places with tight information control. They don't get to go outside freely, but they can fly across the world on a whim to visit these places
And so, their social circle is made up of people they interact in those places - namely, billionaires who are also sitting on similar ephemeral dragon hoards. Ones that overlap with the other hoards
And that's why there's no good billionaires - they're interdependent. They can't just wake up and decide to go off script... They'll be shunned at best, maybe have their wealth cut off, maybe literally put on house arrest or straight up assassinated... It's not like the law applies to billionaires
Anyways, the point is this:
She's a fucking dragon. Sometimes dragons are useful, sometimes they're pointed at your enemies. Sometimes they even do good things
But dragons aren't persons. They don't love like people do, they don't have morals like people do. They don't walk among us or care if we die horribly.
When a dragon is on your side, no they're not. Their hoard always comes first
I don't think billionaires should exist. There should be laws preventing that kind of wealth inequality.
That being said, this one gained her wealth through inheretance, not (direct) exploitation, and she has ranked as the highest woman philanthropist in giving away wealth by percentage. She gave away nearly a billion a year at one point. To good humanitarian and political orgs.
I don't think billionaires should exist. But while disconnected from reality, I don't think they are all evil, either.
I mean, most of them, sure. But maybe don't die on the hill against this one.
She married into it, that's how she inherited it. I'm not even making a moral stance on exploitation - I'm saying that to be a billionaire, to continue to exist as one, you become an avatar for your hoard
Every sane billionaire is living like a normal person. They're working the job they love, living in a nice but practical house, and no one (sometimes not even their spouse or children) knows their bank account is endless
I'm not dying on a hill for her or against her. She's free to do all the good things she likes. I hope she does. I'm not going to interrupt someone doing something I agree with
But she's still a fucking dragon. Make no mistake. Let her do all the good things in the world, but if the winds change and her hoard is threatened she'll turn on you. Never forget that