His PR company doing the rehab work on his public image is top notch, but they need some new material. This one is such a rerun.
Just hear me out what if he gives it to me.
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 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.
I liked Windows 8 :(
I liked it better than Windows Me
And don’t even get me started on Vista
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.
- The Nation: Why Bill Gates’s Philanthropy Is a Problem
- Jacobin: Bill Gates’s Philanthropic Giving Is a Racket
- Adam Ruins Everything: Why Billionaire Philanthropy is Not So Selfless
- Citations Needed podcast:
- Episode 45: The Not-So-Benevolent Billionaire: Bill Gates and Western Media
- Episode 46: The Not-So-Benevolent Billionaire, Part II - Bill Gates in Africa
- News Brief: Big Pharma, Bill Gates Spin Against Generic Vaccines for Global South as Biden a No Show
- News Brief: #VaxLive is a PR Scam So Those Causing Vaccine Inequity Can Pose as Saviors of Global Poor
- Episode 146: Bill Gates, Bono and the Limits of World Bank and IMF-Approved Celebrity ‘Activism’
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.
Last I’ve checked Gates donated $60B to his foundation and now the foundation controls $90B. They got so many other donations Gates now controls more money then before.
Yeah, real sacrifice Bill…
You make it sound like this is a money making scheme but he’s still out about $170 billion compared to other billionaires who pat themselves on the back for a $10k donation here and there or try to use their money to destroy democracy so they can be even more obscenely rich and powerful. $200 billion will go a long way in a developing continent.
You make it sound like he actually lost some money. It’s all just for show. It’s not like he wanted to buy something but decided to donate money instead. He can still afford absolutely everything he could even want. He’s not poorer in any meaningful way. The money his foundation has gives him power. Power to influence governments and policy (like he did with common core). His foundation has now more money than he donated so he has more power than before. It’s a PR stunt.
Anything to not help poor people in your own country, right Bill? His state has so many poor and homeless folks and he just doesn’t care.
Not that Africa doesn’t - he’s got enough money that he could do both, though.
And forcing the African nations into vaccine colonization, aka making them buy only USA backed one that he advocated to be patented asap
