• ImplyingImplications
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    9 months ago

    Most people say Bill Gates but it reminds me of the classic joke:

    The woman you know as your grandmother is not my mother. That’s an elderly woman now trying to get into heaven

    Bill Gates acted identically to Zuckerberg and Musk and every other hated billionare back in the 90s. There was a time Micro$oft was always written with the dollar sign. There was a time a young smug grinning Gates was posted everywhere as the poster child for rich assholes. The Microsoft board of directors did the smart move and removed Gates from management and then he quietly retired. He’s had an Ebenezer Scrooge moment and has spent the last decade trying to buy his way into people’s good graces.

    It’s great that Gates is helping people, but I don’t think we should all have to suffer under a power hungry cut throat CEO and hope one day they have a change of heart.

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      9 months ago

      Fortunately greater numbers are coming to realize that the Gates Foundation’s function was never much more than reputation laundering.

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        9 months ago

        Plus, is it really charity when you give your money to an organization you control?

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          9 months ago

          It is only charity when you control how resources are used.

          Justice and solidarity depend on the beneficiary deciding how to use the resources it receives, but charity is not justice and solidarity.

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      9 months ago

      He forced the covid vaccine to go private with Moderna. Micro$oft was cute and all but these pharmaceutical companies have killed and are killing hundreds of thousands simply by charging so much for the cure.