I feel the need to clarify all my top level comments on this post are copy and pasted from the various comment threads
No, the reason I am not a billionaire is because I am flawed. Only flawless people can become billionaires.
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more billionaires need to step up like this. Give credit where its due. I believe in redemption.
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I don’t like billionaires, but at least people like gates, soros, Cuban, buffet, pritzker, etc are trying to do some good for all the harm their businesses caused, instead of trying to acquire political power and media influence, like Zuckerberg, Murdoch, Trump, musk, Bezos etc.
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it’s a copy paste from a comment in the reddit thread
i retched reading some of the comments
skill issue
I’m sorry
aw you didn’t have to delete your comment; I was just joshin ya
It’s fine I just got carried away
The anti glaze in the comment section is so absurd. Dude went on an Epstein plane once and has donated a shit load to vaccine research. I’m not saying he’s some deity, but he’s not on the same level as Epstein, or Trump, or Thiel, or Musk
In reply to the highest top level comment that isn’t the most bootlicking glaze you’ve ever seen, more than halfway down the page.
I have so much trouble condemning him because his foundation has saved 100k people. That’s not nothing, and I always find it weird that nobody acknowledges it.
Does he even have to pay? R*dditors eat that shit up.
That article doesn’t make me dislike Bill Gates.
He made an error in judgement thinking working with Epstein might be beneficial to his larger philanthropy work. Lots of the worlds rich and powerful continued to do business with Epstein after he served time for his initial conviction, so it doesn’t surprise me that possibilities were explored.
That being said, owning up to it all now in hindsight, is a pretty big good thing.
He’s so committed to ip laws that he’s responsible for possibly millions of deaths. As far as Epstein it seems like he’s had some time to craft a better response, but when he was asked about it on camera he started fidgeting like a kid with their hand in the cookie jar and responded to something along the lines of “Do you have any words of wisdom to share about associating with people like Epstein?” “Well, he’s dead so there’s that.”
Microsoft was also looking the other way at best and (more likely) directly involved at worst when it comes to all the conflicts in the '90s in areas with cobalt, diamonds, copper, etc. Somalian Civil War, Rwandan Genocide, Sierra Leone Civil War, First Congo War, etc. were in areas directly part of the supply chain for computers Microsoft relied on for their products.
As late as 2016, Microsoft was found not to be doing their due diligence on sourcing conflict minerals. It’s speculated they still don’t, but have released several annual reports over supply chains. The main reason they are no longer as involved, however, is because Microsoft was broken up between hardware and software in 2001. So now other companies plunder those areas.
Make no mistake, Gates is involved in more than just covid. He destroyed people’s lives with frivolous lawsuits to climb his way to the top while profiting off genocide, slavery, and wars involving child soldiers.
Are Bill Gates’s Billions Distorting Public Health Data?
The Gates Foundation also funds IHME, a public health research institute of the University of Washington that had been integral towards prematurely ending the sociological aspect of the pandemic by providing the Biden admin with incredibly optimistic, and ultimately inaccurate, projections. Basically, they provided the data that was used to manufacture consent for ending the public’s precautions.
when he was asked about it on camera he started fidgeting like a kid with their hand in the cookie jar
I’m pretty sure I said this in a thread here when the video was posted a couple years back, but I actually think that even if someone is completely innocent, it’s pretty normal to feel anxious and uncomfortable and act weird when being asked about a controversy they know their name is tied into. I wouldn’t judge him as guilty based on that. I’d judge him as guilty because scheduling meetings with Jeffrey Epstein is simply not some unfortunate accident that a blameless soul might haphazardly stumble into.
I get irritated because billionaires get all this credit for making society function, then their failures reduce them back to being mere mortals. It’s similar to how Kamala Harris is “the best person for the job!” but then it’s “her staff wasn’t giving her good advice or were going behind her back.”
Part of being a leader means you know how to deal with shitheads under your supervision, how to delegate, how to vet people, and how to avoid doing stupid shit like being seen with a guy who has photos of himself surrounded by young girls, drugs, and alcohol. The fact Gates didn’t avoid Epstein in the first place just goes to show billionaires don’t deserve shit and they only got there through corruption.
On reddit? .world have got that in fucking /c/upliftingnews https://lemmy.world/post/29358530
Luckily a large amount of replies have the common sense to call it out.
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