As far as \u201csocial statuses that everybody hates you for having\u201d go, being a billionaire seems like a pretty plum gig. First, obviously, there\u2019s all that happiness you\u2019ve already bought, which we\u2019re sure, from looking at pictures of various billion-boys and their wan, sallow faces, must be some really potent stuff. And, hey, if you ever get tired of being widely loathed by everyone around you for hoarding the vast majority of the planet\u2019s wealth, it\u2019s a ridiculously easy condition to cure. Just ask (non-billionaire) Billie Eilish, who got up at an awards show last night, announced that she was giving 11.5 million of her non-billion amount of dollars to charity, and then reminded various billionaires in the crowd that it really is that gosh dang simple.<\/p>\n
This is per\u00a0People<\/a>, reporting that Eilish was accepting an award at the\u00a0Wall Street Journal\u2018s Innovator Awards\u2014which at least sounds like an awards show specifically created so that very rich business types could meet their pop culture heroes without having to add a celebrity wing on to their personal people zoos\u2014when she made her pronouncement. Introduced by host Stephen Colbert (who was pleased as all get out to announce that the Grammy winner was donating more than $10 million in proceeds from her Hit Me Hard And Soft tour to \u201csupport organizations, projects and voices dedicated to food equity, climate justice, reducing carbon pollution and combating the climate crisis\u201d), Eilish laid it out in typically straightforward terms. \u201cLove you all,\u201d she told the crowd, which notably included Facebook billion-guy Mark Zuckerberg. \u201cBut there\u2019s a few people in here that have a lot more money than me. If you\u2019re a billionaire, why are you a billionaire? No hate, but yeah, give your money away, shorties.\u201d<\/p>\n Several observers were quick to note that Zuckerberg did\u00a0not\u00a0clap along with the rest of the room after Eilish\u2019s incredibly gentle jab percolated through the audience. (It\u2019s possible he was wondering why it\u2019s undeniably kind of cool that the 23-year-old superstar attended the event with her mom as her date, while he would have been roasted to shreds for the same move.) In any case\u2014and as far as we know\u2014exactly zero billionaires have taken since the seemingly very easy step of donating their way out of being the Earth\u2019s Most Hated Class Of People after Eilish addressed her \u201cshorties.\u201d So it\u2019s possible she just needs to keep making quietly brutal awards show speeches until the message sinks in.<\/p>\n Billie Eilish says she’s working with James Cameron on some sort of 3D concert thing<\/a>Read This: Billie Eilish could’ve joined the cult and more Once Upon A Time\u2026In Hollywood casting secrets<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As far as \u201csocial statuses that everybody hates you for having\u201d go, being a billionaire seems like a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-107802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}