People of Lemmy, I dare you to name ONE billionaire that's done anything good.

Traditionally this joke is:

Bad Scottish Accent Engaged

I build 200 ships, do they call me Seamus the shipbuilder? Nae.

I paint 100 houses, do they call me Seamus the Housepainter? Nae.

But ye fuck one sheep...

True, and they generally get ample praise for the good. The bad has, unfortunately, rewarded them with their billions.

IDK if it works in this case.

The people with power over you will inevitably use that logic to demand constant praise.

The issue is that any philantropy a billionaire does comes from money "earned" through exploitation and is never enough to un-make them a billionaire. Even if they did, it's still a single person taking the resources of millions of people and controlling it themselves to put into their pet projects, in a completely undemocratic manner - so Gates gets to benefit from the looting of Africa and then turn arounf and tell Africans how he will be allocating that stolen loot. Oh, and that man controlling so much policy in various African nations thinks Africa is overpopulated, an extremely racist eugenicist myth.

The good and bad are not separste things you can judge in isolation, any "good" a billionaire does is only possible by causing disproportionate harm. It is not as though these billionaires are personally doing much of anything, they are simply seizing resources from the public to inefficiently address problems that the public could have managed themselves if they were permitted to control their own lives, if they aren't just doing what Gates does of using donations as money laundering.