money is irrelevant to them, it's what the money represents that matters, which is the power to exercise their will on incredible scales. money alone doesn't give you that without you using it to gain control of some means of production, which then gives you control over commodities, infrastructure, employees, and because your ownership of those means and your ability to influence them has consequences for the politicians who are elected by your employees, you get political agency like nobody else on the earth has. being able to stick a finger in millions of people's pies is what drives these people, architecting society and leaving some kind of mark or whatever the fuck. that's what motivates lizard billionaires to engineer wars for profit and enslave the developing world. there's no such thing as an ethical fortune, or a moral billionaire. you only become one by perpetuating exploitation on massive scales and enabling others in your class to as well, and violently repressing those people with police forces, intrusive laws, social conditioning, and fomenting class antagonisms like racism, sexism, etc. a billion dollars is the stolen labor of a hundred thousand people or more, who have to live a miserable existence to facilitate its creation. now, could we take the billion dollars at the end of the rainbow and shove it back into the system to somehow make those lives less miserable? yes and no. for a time maybe, but look at the track record of things like means tested easement programs and benefits, welfare is all but extinct, the New Deal was essentially saying "billionaires are immoral and we're going to give a lot of this to the people", but capitalists have long ambitions, and over the intervening decades it has been all but undone until we're in the situation we are now, even progress on racism is rolling back, abortion rights, job security/safety, etc. the only way to stop the ebb and flow of misery is to dismantle the concept of private property, for profit businesses, and market based commodity production. you have to tear down the whole superstructure of society and start with a foundation that every person on earth deserves the material necessities of life, education, healthcare, political autonomy, and to be able to exercise real power and decision making in their community and social structures. if you don't unseat capitalism first, those core ideals become diluted because they have to serve too many masters before they can be realized. that's how you end up with things like Obamacare/PPACA instead of Medicare4All, and Yang Bucks instead of guaranteed housing/food/clothing/education, or schemes to "reduce" college debt instead of saying college debt is abhorrent to us. holy shit i can't believe how much i typed, i'm stopping now.