Comment by true_religion
4 days ago
Being a philanthropist connotes having a purely altruistic rationale for giving away money.
If you’re giving away money to shush people, or gather support for your politics, or gain something else out of it then you do not receive the beneficial connotation.
Strictly going by definition, dictators can be philanthropists.
He spends money lobbying the WHO to buy drugs from companies he's a major shareholder in. Then he pays journalists so they always write about him positively. He's brilliantly figured out how the world works.