Jay-Z, the world’s wealthiest musician, pushed back on arguments that billionaires are inherently bad in a rare interview with GQ on Tuesday, saying it’s “like a cop-out” to link a person’s morality to the amount of money they have.
Jay-Z, whom Forbes estimates is worth $2.8 billion, told GQ a person’s “morality is not defined by a dollar amount,” questioning: “If so, what is that dollar amount? When does it start? If it’s a cutoff like ‘all millionaires are bad,’ at 999,000 I’m good? It can’t be that way.”
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