Nick Hanauer has lobbied for higher minimum wages.

Michael Bloomberg has lobbied for healthcare.

Pierre Omidyar has spent about a billion on economic advancement non-profits

Gates Foundation - Bunch of stuff.

Warren Buffet - Too much to count

George Soros - For all the antisemitism, the kernel of truth in the lie is that he spends a lot of money trying to make the world better.

Chuck Feeny gave away $8B I'm sure some of it went to lobbying for better policies

A large number Advocate for a Universal Basic Income.

More advocate for things that they clearly think are good things for the world, even if you, personally do not.

Jack Dorsey, Reid Hoffman, hell even Elon Musk (he may be wrong about everything, but he's openly advocating for what he believes is good)

Sam Altman has done WorldCoin and is heavily invested in Nuclear Fusion. You can criticise the effectiveness or even the desirability of the projects, but they are definitely efforts that if worked as claimed would be beneficial.

Many billionaires spend money on non-profits to push for change, often they do not put their name on it because it makes them a target for attack, or simply that by openly advocating for something the lack of trust causes people to assume whatever they suggest has the opposite intention.

I'm not arguing that they are doing the right thing. I'm arguing that for the most part they are advocating for and investing in what they believe to be the right thing. Why treat them as the enemy, when a dialog might cause them to reach common ground about what is the right thing.

>Why treat them as the enemy, when a dialog might cause them to reach common ground about what is the right thing.

People like Elon literally are the enemy. He used his wealth to literally change our government in his favor. The idea that we need to go and have polite discussions to maybe change his mind, while he gets to stomp all over us (his DOGE efforts literally resulted in people dying). If a dialog with them was going to work it would have happened a long time ago, but the more we learn about these people the more obvious it is that they believe themselves to be smarter and better than the rest of us. They aren't going to listen to others, and pretending that they will seems like deflecting and giving up in advance. Our best hope is that people can get enough power to regulate billionaires out of existence before a revolution does it instead.