Who are some people in powerful positions or 1%ers that are genuinely good people?

Mackenzie Scott.

Bezos' ex wife has already done more good for humanity than he could ever hope to achieve

Bourgeois class traitors are a rare breed, and bourgeois class traitors in powerful positions are a pipe dream. The capitalist class—which owns the means of production and gets its wealth by expropriating surplus value from the working class’ wages or by rent-seeking—are not going to save us.

I like Mark Cuban for the whole https://www.costplusdrugs.com/ thing he's doing. I have no idea whether or not he's a decent guy, but this is a decent thing to do, so I give him the benefit of the doubt.

Closest I can think of is GabeN and like all of us he's certainly not perfect

Being that powerful and wealthy doesn’t happen without doing horrible things. Then, once a person achieves that status, the pressures change and they just become worse.

It’s not possible. They’ve Hoover’d up money and direct where it’s used.

At any point they could give emough back to the people to become less then billionaires. But they don’t.

Being a billionaire is like staying alive long enough to be a villain. They were great at something but nothing justifies holding that much power for so long.

Jeff Atwood (stack overflow and discourse cofounder) seems pretty cool for someone who made a shitton of money in tech. Everyone I know who's met him says he's a nice and normal human being, and he's currently funding a UBI program as well as giving copiously to high-quality charities.

Nelson Mandela

Kim Jung Un

If they were genuinely good people they wouldn't be in the 1%.

Being 1% is not just rich, not just disgustingly rich, you needed to have exploited BILLIONS of people for DECADES and had no moral qualms about it. If you did, you would have stopped long before you reached that high.

It's like asking if any 1st degree murderers did it by accident.

it's not a moral problem per se. it doesn't matter if members of the so called 1% are personally good or bad. if they reached those positions then they are performing roles that are prejudicial for the society.

politics is less about people's morality or intentions. it's about what they effectively do.

Scott Galloway has consistently advocated for younger generations and criticized the accumulation of wealth in the boomer generation and 1%. Check out his TED talk https://youtu.be/qEJ4hkpQW8E

If you have enough money to be in the 1% and choose to keep it to remain in the 1% instead of using it to right the many many wrongs in the world, you can't be a good person.

Just having that much money, and not using it is a moral failing.

Queen Elizabeth II

There are no good 1%ers. Doing philanthropy with your excessive fortune isn't worthy of applause, it's simply the easiest way to give. And more often than not they still do not. Using your influence (acquired through fortune) is hollow as hell too like why should we listen to you? Because you're loaded?? Nah but thanks for the dono.

There are good rich people but they are rich in other resources, usually immaterial.

Also Cosby Cosby'd himself....

Jay Pritzker (governor of Illinois) seems like an okay dude.

Closest I can think of is post-Microsoft Bill Gates, with the humanitarian/healthcare stuff he's been involved in. He was a total piece of shit as Microsoft's CEO, though, what with the aggressive anti-trust practices and all. Not that the ones that came after were much better (especially Ballmer).