Anything? That seems like an easy goal to score on. Maybe you mean "done good overall"?
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A better question might be “name a billionaire that does more good than harm to the world”? Although personally I think that’s an impossibility.
A single good act does not a good man make.
Current Agha Khan founded the Agha Khan Development Network which has done a fair amount of good in the developing world.
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The dead ones
Crassus invented the fire brigade and his head became a stage prop for the Parthians.
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J.K. Rowling, amongst others, have given away so much money that they've lost their billionaire status.
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The guy who ran Cuyamel back when they were bribing the Honduran government and after that the United Fruit Company supposedly spent the rest of his life drafting social welfare legal proposals for democrats. Which given just how evil the United Fruit Company was is more of an indictment of new deal legislation than anything else tbh.
Chuck Feeney out here just existing and you having the audacity to suggest that good billionaire's don't exist. 3.7 Billion dollars donated in his lifetime.
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That one brought a couple friends and his billionaire son down and unalived together.
Probably unintentional, but that one moment saved the planet a lot of hurt down the line I'm sure.