Bad billionaires

Published November 7, 2025 5:14am ET



Billie Eilish, the Generation Z pop star famous for her song “bad guy,” has decided there’s a new bad guy in town, and it’s not her; it’s billionaires. “If you’re a billionaire, why are you a billionaire?” she asked onstage at a recent event to celebrate innovators. “No hate, but, yeah, give your money away.”

To her credit, the millionaire decided to practice what she preached by having late-night host Stephen Colbert announce that she is donating $11.5 million to issues including “food equity” and “climate justice.” (The latter target suggests that rich people really should just keep their money if they want to do the rest of us any good.)

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