With the blowback coming at Ellen D for sitting next to a war criminal at a football game, and her subsequent video explanation, I felt the need to put her stance into some sort of perspective. The short-hand version would be. “I am going to do what I want with whom I want. If you have a problem with that, you just don’t understand how I view the world.” When you have hundreds of millions of dollars, you just don’t have toe the line of morality.
Bear in mind that if you made $5000 a day, every day since Columbus landed in the new world, you still would not have a billion dollars. No one with that amount of $ has earned it. They have it because they are not sharing it with people who work for them. They are not sharing it with people in need. They are not spending it to fix or preserve things. They could.
Remember that they could, but do not. They make the choice to keep what they have. Even when Melinda Gates pledges to spend a billion dollars to fix one thing in one place, it doesn't make even an appreciable dent in their finances. They just don't want to share. It must be forced upon them. If you think the French getting out the guillotine was anything other than a last resort, you would be mistaken. We have homeless people and empty houses. We have millions without healthcare and unemployed LVN's. Any of these billionaires could just buy politicians to get the streets fixed, but they don't.
Yes, some of them do do some good stuff. But many many people with more $ than they and their families could ever spend in a thousand lifetimes just put it in the Cayman Islands and let the world burn.
I have very little sympathy and am very skeptical of anything that shows them in a favorable light (see the Netflix series on Bill Gates). Because they can pay to make sure that is how they are presented.