While accepting the Music Innovator Award at the WSJ Magazine Innovator Awards on October 29, Billie Eilish urged the billionaires in the room to consider their wealth. During her acceptance speech, she made it clear that those with excessive funds might want to think about doing something worthwhile with their money.

Still, she kept her tone light even while delivering the harsh reality. To a celebrity audience that included Mark Zuckerberg (currently the fifth-richest person in the world), Eilish urged “empathy” in a world that’s “really, really bad and really dark” at the moment.

“We’re in a time right now where the world is really, really bad and really dark and people need empathy and help more than, kind of, ever, especially in our country,” she said. “I’d say if you have money, it

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