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Billie Eilish told billionaires to give away their wealth at Wall Street Journal 2025 Innovator Awards, "why are you a billionaire?" "give away your money, shorties"

https://www.nme.com/news/music/billie-eilish-calls-out-billionaires-to-their-faces-and-donates-11-5million-from-tour-to-charity-3903885

https://xcancel.com/BillieSociety/status/1983731479210594350 (video)

https://archive.is/b4sqE (rolling stone)

This story has been viral. Most people seem to be responding positively, while some are defending billionaires.

Billie Eilish also pledged to donate $11.5 million to climate change and food scarcity charity, while some sources are reporting that her total net worth is estimated $50 million.

Awoo [she/her] - 1mon

why are you a billionaire?

Power, control. They stopped needing it for anything else a long time ago. They only want it to be part of the few who choose how to shape capitalist society. Appealing to their morality or shame will not change that.

no hate

I-was-saying

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Lussy [he/him, des/pair] - 1mon

give away your money, shorties

What

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dead [he/him] - 1mon

Love you all, but there’s a few people in here who have a lot more money than me. If you’re a billionaire, why are you a billionaire? No hate, but yeah, give your money away, shorties. Love you guys. Thank you so much.

Shorty is a slang term of endearment, which can also mean an attractive woman. It seems like the usage in the context is sarcastic or ironic. Her persona seems very apathetic or indifferent. She's saying some nice words, but her tone indicates she doesn't actually like them.

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Meltyheartlove [love/loves, comrade/them] - 1mon

They are the bearwhales that made money on the bear market shorting hexcoins stonks-down What he means here is that they have to give something to gain something. He advises them to give out their billions out of their liquidity pools, collapse the candles and spread fud in the right places so the apes and zk air droppers will ashdrake and build the circumstances for bag holders to breathe fomo with an atl so they catch the falling knife and rugpull their distributed ledgers and with enough dead cat bounces so they btfd. They wouldn't want more diamond hands after all so when thw time is right they can enjoy the ath and 51% consensus for themselves. Perhapse a flippening is in due and hexcoins can be dom for the first time but it is all up to the market makers.

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LEM 1689 - 1mon

All in all, a three-ring circus

Of unity, with parody

Tragedy or comedy

Probably publicity

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