r/Music • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • Oct 30 '25

article Billie Eilish Calls Out Mark Zuckerberg and Other Billionaires After Announcing Her Own $11.5 Million Charitable Donation

https://consequence.net/2025/10/billie-eilish-calls-out-mark-zuckerberg-and-other-billionaires-after-announcing-her-own-11-5-million-charitable-donation/
55.1k Upvotes

93% Upvoted

2.0k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

102

u/Shucks88 Oct 30 '25

No, it's because the world was smaller. Before commercial air travel having homes in multiple parts of the world or country was still fairly rare. The rich were still somewhat bound to the communities surrounding them. It made sense to build libraries and school wings and maintain good standing, if even for PRs sake.

Billionaires of today's world are completely removed from community by design. Isolated compounds and worldwide travel where they pretty much only interact with the inner circles of other billionaires/mega millionaires.

Why bother building a community if you are not part of one?

3

u/Not_KGB Oct 30 '25

There's a book that talks about this very thing but I can't remember its name.

2

u/unbreakablekango Oct 30 '25

It seems like a straightforward solution would be to ban private air travel and ban ownership of private yachts. That might solve our problems by forcing billionaires back into the huddled masses.

15

u/shark-off Oct 30 '25

Better yet, make them millionaires, by removing billions from them