“If you’re a billionaire, why are you a billionaire? No hate, but yeah, give your money away, shorties” – Billie Eilish
- Jeff Bezos — Worth roughly $200 billion, his total lifetime giving hovers around $3–4 billion — about 2 percent. He’s keeping the yacht.
- Elon Musk — Claims to have donated $5.7 billion to his own foundation in 2021, but that foundation has barely distributed funds. His real giving is under 1 percent of net worth.
- Bernard Arnault — The world’s luxury king donated a few million euros to rebuild Notre Dame. That’s about 0.005 percent of his fortune — the equivalent of a middle-class person giving $50.
- Larry Ellison — His foundation is mostly dormant, and he’s given away roughly 1 percent of his $150 billion wealth. But he loves his private Hawaiian island.
- Mark Zuckerberg & Priscilla Chan — They pledged to give 99 percent “eventually,” but most of it sits in their LLC. Their actual giving so far is around 2 percent of wealth.
- Larry Page & Sergey Brin — Google’s founders run secretive foundations that give away a fraction of 1 percent of their combined $200 billion. New Google Motto: Let’s Be Greedy.
- Michael Dell — Worth $120 billion+, has donated about $2–3 billion total. That’s roughly 2 percent, yet he’s constantly praised as a model donor.
- Alice Walton (Walmart heir) — Funds art museums and cultural projects but still gives under 1 percent of her fortune. Walmart workers gave more, proportionally, just by buying lunch.
- The Pritzker Family (Hyatt & Illinois dynasty) — Massive wealth spread across trusts and holding companies. Their combined giving is a rounding error — the Illinois governor’s charitable profile is dwarfed by his family’s inheritance.
- The Koch Family — Charles Koch and his late brother gave hundreds of millions to ideological think tanks, but that’s still only around 1–2 percent of total wealth — and often donated to causes to protect it.