That's because the language you're using negates itself. Bill and Melinda Gates were infamous for their good work. Which I do find kinda funny and yeah I absolutely could find a way to say that. Just the likelihood of a person using a negative connotation (infamous) to describe something they're biased to positively (good work) isn't very high. Now if I had a negative opinion about people richer than god amusing themselves by seeing if you really can fix all the world's problems by throwing money at them... infamous would absolutely apply to them and the concept of connotative relativity comes back into play.
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