Bill Gates: Microsoft founder to give most of $200bn fortune to Africa
Bill Gates: Microsoft founder to give most of $200bn fortune to Africa
The Microsoft founder urges young innovators to use Artificial Intelligence to improve health services.
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surely lemmy will praise this right? or are we blinded by hate?
- What could it possibly matter to you, personally, if people praise a billionaire?
- No. Absolutely not, every time, no. You don't get to be a billionaire by any legitimate means (note I did not say legal, this is a separate matter). That's money that should've been collected into taxes, paid into systems to help the American people, and if properly supported, donated to Africa through the appropriate institutions.
You don't just get to be a billionaire and then donate BILLIONS at the end of your life to wash away your indiscretions. Fuck him and every other billionaire.
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.
Aye no shit. Still doesn’t mean it’s liquid. Can’t get a loan if you don’t plan to pay it back.
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.No. This is cool. He's still divorced because of Epstein though. He also had enough money stop the fascists. Bill will have a very gray spot in history.
But he isn't using his money to stop fascism, he part of the problem. He's just dumping his money ill gotten gained from the US to a countries where you can't recoup the losses and still leave a favorable legacy behindm