• Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
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    6 days ago

    He’s not a CEO any more, but Bill Gates is on a mission to die a mere millionaire, and I think has already given away more than half his net worth.

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      6 days ago

      Bill Gates is a massive piece of shit. Don’t let all the propaganda he puts out there fool you. When you start looking closer at his so-called charity work it’s not nearly as pretty as you might think.

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        5 days ago

        Yeah let’s hear it. Please elaborate on your accusations and don’t be so vague.

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          5 days ago

          He basically gave $54BN to the “Gates and Melinda Charity”.

          Guess who controls the charity?

          Guess if the “Charity” pays taxes?

          It’s crazy how fast people simp for billionaires, old evil shitty hated-by-all billionaires too, just because they spend some publicities around.

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              5 days ago

              No, it doesn’t. And I’d guess that foundation is far more efficient with it’s funds than most, given it doesn’t need to advertise or ask for money.

              People here are just desperate to find some reason to hate the guy.

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              5 days ago

              I think that you don’t understand the value of billions of dollars. He can do whatever he wants “for himself” with just $0.1BN. The rest is just a mental hoarding disease IMO.

              They love buying companies, patents and so on, just because. Maybe they miss thst rush when they “earned” their first billion or something and, like a junkie, wants to feel it again.

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                5 days ago

                So you don’t think he should give away any money or what?.

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                  5 days ago

                  Where on earth did you read he’s giving away money?

                  For example, researchers don’t want “his money” because there are so many strings attached that whatever you discover, now it’s under Bill Gates ownership.

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                    5 days ago

                    I definitely don’t have much love for the guy but my understanding is the money he put up to fight malaria has saved a bunch of lives.

                    The current situation as I understand it is that he makes more money from his investments than he gives away each year. If he was committed to giving all his money away like he said, wouldn’t he… get on that? He’s not getting any younger, why isn’t he throwing cash at any good cause?

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      6 days ago

      Bill Gates’ net worth has grown substantially despite his philanthropy, rising from $126.8 billion in early 2023 to $156 billion in December 2024.

      Regarding COVID-19 vaccines, Gates actively opposed patent waivers and influenced Oxford University to privatize its vaccine through AstraZeneca rather than keep it open-source. He pushed for maintaining intellectual property rights through COVAX, despite public funding supporting vaccine development.

      Not a good guy by any metric.

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      6 days ago

      Watching people totally fall for Gates’s incredibly shallow face value self image propaganda bullshit is wild to me. FUCK that guy, so hard. One of the biggest reasons we have enshittification today is this one man.

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        5 days ago

        Yeah how dare he run a tax scheme by

        *checks notes

        Saving millions of people across all of Africa by providing free healthcare for treatable diseases and potential pandemics?

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        6 days ago

        incredibly shallow face value self image propaganda bullshit is wild to me.

        He’s given away billions of dollars, and that’s face value to you? Besides, he hasn’t been in control at Microsoft for decades at this point.

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          We wouldn’t need him to make these donations if he actually paid his fucking taxes is the thing though. And it’s significantly less.