“I love you all,” Billie Eilish told a big group of people , including Mark Zuckerberg, Hailey Bieber, and Chris Rock, at The Wall Street Journal ’s Innovator Awards on October 29, “but there’s a few people in here that have a lot more money than me.” She sang the last word of her sentence and flashed the audience a toothy smile. “If you’re a billionaire, why are you a billionaire? No hate, but yeah, give your money away, shorties. Love you guys.”

Her comments were anodyne as far as those about wealth inequality go. No “Tax the rich,” no “Eat the rich,” no “Class war — now.” Eilish couched her critique in love, not once but twice; she even added “no hate.” In a video of the event, it’s clear from the way Eilish scans the room as she speaks that she’s talking directly to the Inno

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