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There are no innocent billionaires anyway.
Wait, if I were to become a billionaire, would I get at least 30 days to give up wealth, or would I be considered evil instantly?
The act making a billion dollars alone requires acts that deserve a guillotine. I’d argue anyone actively trying to become a billionaire should be lined up for the wood chipper.
AFAIK most billionaires become so by birth, even if the most prominent are the ones who made their fortune through their own exploits (though I assume most of those were already wealthy by birth).
Becoming a billionaire by birth isn't evil in itself, it's the act of staying a billionaire. Though rare, there are examples of people born into considerable wealth who give most of it away to charity.
I'll make an exception for regular people who hit the big lotteries. That's probably the only ethical way.
Are we gonna ignore the exploitation it took for you to have 900 million? 800? 500?.. nobody has an exact cutoff, but at some point an individual has effectively won capitalism, and that point is looooong before you reach 1 billion.
What if I get it by divorcing a billionaire?
Now, I have all this money.
I'm going to be honest, it's power, not wealth at that point.
I would hold onto at least some of it, to try and spread my own ideology.
Which is solar punk.
But I would probably just hand it to some green investment firm, brush aside the ethics of funding such businesses, and focus on R&D on sustainable living, and greenifying neighborhoods. Ironically, my end goal even now, is to undermine my own power.
Humanity goes AWOL and becomes uncontrollable is my endgoal.