someone said to me recently, “if you make 100 million, you could be just a person who worked hard and is lucky, if you make a billion, you had to do something bad to get there”

I've seen a few who were *less* bad like the founder of Nvidia. Just worked his ass off as an immigrant with truly nothing. Probably fucked over a ton of people but still not quite as evil as most AFAICT

@gregpalast.bsky.social said this ages ago and it remains my favourite quote about billionaires.