Just because he’s less of an asshole than Musk or Bezos doesn’t mean billionaires should exist.
You don’t get $200bn by paying appropriate taxes or wages. Donating most of his money is a good deed and it’s going to help a lot of people, but you just don’t get that much money without stepping on a lot of people too.
I’m not going to shit on him for doing something good with the money but I’m not going to praise him for having that much money in the first place either.
Stopped reading after the first one used his listed illiquid wealth (which probably includes a notable chunk of Microsoft stock that he can’t just dump on market).
surely lemmy will praise this right? or are we blinded by hate?
It doesn’t matter how much good he does, some people will never forgive Windows 8.
I liked Windows 8 :(
I liked it better than Windows Me
And don’t even get me started on Vista
I thought Ballmer was CEO at that time?
Doesn’t matter, Bill Gates is guilty of every bad thing that Microsoft ever did and I even heard he modelled clippy after Jeffrey Epstein.
Just because he’s less of an asshole than Musk or Bezos doesn’t mean billionaires should exist.
You don’t get $200bn by paying appropriate taxes or wages. Donating most of his money is a good deed and it’s going to help a lot of people, but you just don’t get that much money without stepping on a lot of people too.
I’m not going to shit on him for doing something good with the money but I’m not going to praise him for having that much money in the first place either.
Bill Gates has the best public relations machine money can buy.
Stopped reading after the first one used his listed illiquid wealth (which probably includes a notable chunk of Microsoft stock that he can’t just dump on market).
That can still be used to leverage loans, and is still very much a form of power, just like his on hand cash is.