trust me bro
Might I recommend The Gates by Da Vinci’s Notebook?
I mean, he did fuck up a good chunk of everything…
My insane conspiracy theorist mother in law would love this.
Sadly.
I prefer to blame every big company, like “fuck Google”, “fuck Microsoft”. Sounds better.
Fuck Nestle
…fsck cocacola, apple, valve and walmart then
well maybe not walmart, no need to, they did it themselves
Please don’t invoke the Bill Gates apologists 😑
They exist??
like a cult of cucked poor people.
they don’t care about how much evil he’s had to subject the world to, as long as some good is done they believe it’s worth it.
Sadly yes. Ever since he became a “philanthropist”, people come out of the woodwork to say he’s “one of the good ones”. I have to remind them that he may be “good” now but he can still pay his fucking taxes and be better.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation lobbied against waiving intellectual property laws that would’ve let countries produce the vaccines themselves. Instead, only the pharma companies that owned the IP could produce it, and those vaccines were immediately gobbled up by wealthy countries leaving millions in poorer countries without a vaccine. So no, he’s not one of the good ones, his philanthropy is still evil with a hint of good purely to launder his reputation.
I’m probably one of the people OP is thinking of. Before my time he was apparently a massive bastard, and he even admits to it. These days, as far as I can tell, he rescues Africans and doesn’t do much else. Every other famous billionaire is higher on my shit list.
so what’s your threshold for being a scumbag piece of shit?
gotta be pretty high if you think Gates is an “okay” kind of guy.
I guess a better question should be, how many people have to die for a philanthropist to be held responsible?
Almost certainly, he’s saved far more lives than he’s taken at this point.
He scalped Western technophobes pretty hard and tried to hobble a lot of early FOSS efforts (although we came through in the end). Few of the idiots buying Windows XP licences needed that money more then the recipients of the Gates fund, though, so if that’s his lifetime transaction it’s based.
so what’s your threshold for being a scumbag piece of shit?
It’s not clear good people exist at all.
I killed 5, now I gave blood and saved 3, only 2 to go to be “morally clean” am I right?
Pfff.
Hey, it’s a pretty popular ethical philosophy. Generally, people like to leave caveats, but fully rejecting all consequentialism is similarly uncommon.
If you’re going to be a pure deontologist, you have to pick out single actions he’s done that went against your chosen rules. One hurdle there is that most of his activities were legal in their time or place. Another is that seeking personal profit is almost universal and often commended.
Have you heard of the trolley problem? You should check it out instead of trying to “get me” with some slop. Also, legit isn’t moral!
so we’re going yo ignore all the bad things he’s done in the name of goodwill?
- advocated for IP rights to remain in pharmaceutical hands and block access to lifesaving inoculations
- utilized the BAMG foundation to launder money for their rich friends like Buffet and Epstein
- leveraged their connections made via BAMG to broaden their control of markets worldwide
- negatively influenced access to healthcare inside and outside the US
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2022/07/how-bill-gates-makes-the-world-worse-off
it’s clear that the BAMG foundation is a dark corporate support tool used to clean the Gates legacy and help launder their rich friends names, money, and influence.
good should be done for the improvement of humanity and bad people should be held accountable for their crimes. if every one accepts the bad and supports those who perpetrate the evil then justice will never prevail and society will succumb to corruption. that sounds pretty familiar, doesn’t it?
People like you that accept the evil subjected to the world as justification for the good, make me sick. you should be ashamed of yourself.
People also say he’s putting microchips in the COVID vaccines, so pardon me if I’m skeptical about all that. It appears to be a philanthropic project. Maybe not the best possible one, but one nonetheless.
good should be done for the improvement of humanity and bad people should be held accountable for their crimes.
Wouldn’t the “holding accountable” itself involve some bad actions?
Rubbish it was my code that failed!
