Nobody earns a billion dollars through honest work. You don't become a celebrity billionaire on your own. Creating and maintaining celebrity takes a large team of workers who sees none of the profits created by the celebrity.

Those profits are most often created by being able to demand far greater prices for branded merchandise than the cost of labour and materials, justified solely by the brand and image of the celebrity. This allows them to extract a form of monopoly rent by creating an artificial scarcity in the market.

Celebrity billionaires might not be the most consciously evil billionaires but they are exploitative and parasitic, just like any other kind of billionaire.

There are no good billionaires. Period.

Rowling made her money from stealing surplus value from people who produce the overpriced commodities based on her shitty racist wizard book, so those arguments never had much merit.

The biggest excuse they use nowadays is that its a billion dollars in stocks and other assets, and therefore there's nothing anyone can do. As if selling stocks is unheard of. They think we're stupid.

This is true of course, but at the same time I also think some billionaires deserve a bit more hate than others.

I'm sorry. I'm old AF. Who the absolute fuck are the two clowns on the bottom? Serious question. Are those the "good billionaires?" Straight to the fucking wall, the both of them. Nobody on Earth has ever in the history of human civilization "earned" a billion dollars. The wall. Now.

Honestly had no idea that Rihanna is a billionaire

Imagine having more money than you could ever, ever spend, and looking at the world and saying "hmm, no I got mine".