• Squirrel@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    561·
    10 months ago

    Good acts do not make a good person. Plenty of billionaires have done good things, but they don’t even come close to outweighing the bad.

    • Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works
      29·
      10 months ago

      I love a quote I read once in a thing about alignment. “If you fix twenty neighbor’s roofs, you’re Jimmy the Helpful Thatcher. But if you eat the neighbor’s daughter, you’re Jimmy the Cannibal, and no amount of additional carpentry assistance will change that.”

      • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        13·
        10 months ago

        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…

    • quat@lemmy.sdfeu.org
      12·
      10 months ago

      A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.

      • Squirrel@thelemmy.clubEnglish
        8·
        10 months ago

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

    • darharrison@lemm.ee
      6·
      10 months ago

      Yeah, the wording of OP’s question is dumb for this reason. What person on this planet has done literally only evil things? A better question would be more like “What billionaire is genuinely a good person and why?” Personally the size of my list of “overall good” billionaires is a rounding error but at least the thread would be more interesting.