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      He has not always been pleasant. Don’t fall for the post-retirement PR spin

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            You say that, but look at the cadre of billionaires who no longer have anything to gain from being awful… but still are.

            Old habits die hard?

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              That is a good point. I think most of them are just plain awful people who enjoy causing negatively influencing the world, while others are only awful when it benefits them.

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        He is the best billionaire. That may not be a high bar, but it’s something. If Elon Musk decided to retire and cure Malaria like Bill did (or maybe even just get back to space exploration or autonomous driving as he was doing before his Twitter craze, hopefully without fucking other people over?) I wouldn’t mind him as much

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          Most of Bill’s philanthropy was due completely to Melinda.

          I’m watching with interest what new things he does now that he’s on his own.

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        I’ll take a horrible billionaire investing in malaria research over a manchild billionaire obsessed with naming everything X.

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      You do realise it was Bill Gates who made the creators of the Oxford Astra Zeneca Vaccine make it paid and keep the methods of producing it hidden? Their original plan was to make the methods of production public, so that Governments could set up their own labs to produce more of it and save lives. There were many deaths that could have been prevented if it wasn’t for this terrible human being.