Comment on Scrooge would definitely be on that list.
notabot@piefed.social 6 days agoSo, I get where you’re coming from, but Scrooge McDuck seems to have two key differences from your average flesh-and-blood billionaire, one, his fortune seemed to be in actual, tangible, assets (mostly gold coins and other currency), rather than imaginary share valuations, and two, he was unwilling to spend a cent of it if it could be avoided, including on things like buying politicians. The net result was that the gold and currency was removed from circulation, which would increase the value, and thus buying power, of what was left, without exerting any influence itself.
Another key difference is that he liked to dive face first into his fortune, and if other billionaires did that, the problem would largely solve itself.
LwL@lemmy.world 6 days ago
He did regularly exploit everything for maximum profit though, so really he’d still be a problem, even though he’s not power hungry. And to protect his wealth he’d totally meddle in politics too (there’s probably more than one comic where that happens).
Well, he is at least often shown to have some amount of conscience left. Which is probably more than any real-life billionaire, at least the ones you’ve heard the names of.