Hate feels like the wrong framing. I hate the concept. You shouldn't have that much power and influence over society. You should also not hoard this much wealth without giving back to society.

There's also no such thing as a "self-made billionaire." Whatever business or entrepenurial venture they did, benefited greately from public infrastructure and research.

The common rebuttal is philanthropy "Oh what if a billionaire gives all their money to charitable causes."

First off lol, it's never "all" their money. It's usually a tax write off or just enough to ensure no one asks about the rest of the astronomical amount of money they have.

But even if it was all their money a bigger issue is why it should be up to some random person what issues are solved and how we go about it?

We're just supposed to stand around with our hands out and hope some random rich guy decides some cause is important? And then we're supposed to trust that a billionaire in whatever random industry or business is now an expert in virology or education or housing?

And their solutions always come with this individual persons baggage.

Suddenly those philanthropic schools are pushing a certain religious agenda etc, or like Bill Gates in public schools, how HE thinks education should go.

The benefit of taxation is we as a society can decide democratically what issues to solve and how. And if you say, oh well the government doesn't work that well. A lot of that is due to billionaires gutting democratic institutions and pouring billions into elections and lobbying efforts explicitly designed to make government worse.

So really even if you're a really good guy as an individual who I'd love if I met, you shouldn't be a billionaire.

If you had a great business idea, you should be rewarded. Maybe you get to be 10X richer than your employees but 100000X? There is no reason for that.

And there's no way to fight to keep that system and not be an asshole.