""If you have money, it would be great to use it for good things and maybe give it to some people that need it," she said as the audience cheered. "Love you all, but there's a few people in here that have a lot more money than me," she continued, to some laughter. "If you are a billionaire, why are you a billionaire? No hate, but yeah, give your money away, shorties.""
"The chuckles became more strained after that, possibly because the onlookers - who earlier in the night posed against the aubergine backdrop at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art and enjoyed caviar and blackberry mocktails - included some of the wealthiest people on earth. There was Meta CEOMark Zuckerberg, worth $226.2 billion, whose wife, Priscilla Chan, was being honored for her philanthropic work. Filmmaker George Lucas, worth $5.3 billion, accepted an award with his wife, investor Mellody Hobson, for innovation in design."
Billie Eilish directly challenged ultra-wealthy attendees while accepting a WSJ Magazine Innovator Award, urging billionaires to use their money for good and to give it to people in need. The audience included Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, who were being recognized for philanthropic work, and filmmaker George Lucas and investor Mellody Hobson, who accepted an award for design. Chan and Zuckerberg pledged to donate 99% of their Meta shares, and Lucas pledged to give away at least half his wealth and fully funded a new museum. Rising economic inequality has prompted protests and political criticism aimed at billionaires.
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