Get fucked with a rusty rake bill, you helped stop the COVID vaccines from being patent exempt, among plenty of other awful shit, all for more money.
this post was submitted on 09 May 2025
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The vaccines were patent exempt, WTO adopted it officially in 2022, which the Gates Foundation endorsed shortly after Bill's initial objection.
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~~Tax~~ Eat the rich!
Here's the thing. Even if he lives up to this promise, it's still him deciding where that money should go, and it won't be towards long term support of social safety nets for the commoners. He should just have been paying his fair share of taxes all along and into the future.
Based on current spending, it will most likely be spent getting drinkable water to the majority of the world’s population.
I don’t like how he got his money, but he’s been reasonably responsible with it since his divorce.
That said, he has over $113b dollars. If he gives away 99% of it, he’ll still have over a billion dollars.
He's been buying up huge swathes of farm land in the middle of the country. Not everything he's doing has been philanthropy
There are books on him exposing how half of his charities are frauds. Given his past records humanity should be wary of putting this man anywhere near anything drinkable or useful
Behind the bastards has a good two parter on him. I wouldn't say he's been responsible with it.
...or paying his employees more.
Funny how we don't have a popular term for the portion of an employee's deserved wage that turns into "record shareholder profit."
Imagine if all corporations were required to put a line item on check stubs showing how much you made them.
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Give it away now instead you piece of shit. If he actually gave a shit he would have donated it all to charities already. It's just a billionaire farse, fuck him and the rest of em.
he actually gave a shit he would have donated it all to charities already. It's just a billionaire farse,
Just not his own goddamned ~~tax avoidance scheme~~ charity
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Bank Robber vows to give away his stolen funds by 20 years from now to charities of his choosing. He's one of the good ones! So uplifting!
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Lol
I've been sending his chain emails along since the 90s so he owes me some serious interest.
...and still be a billionaire.
Why should oligarchs get to decide where the proceeds of their exploitation get spent?
Don't advertise scum. This guys is trying to literally spend 99% of his fortune to wipe off all the shit he has done.
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too bad he vouched for vaccines to be only distrubted by the USA, which makes the cost high for poorer countries. people like him have an ulterior motives of what he is doing.
Doesn't that leave him still with something like $2 billion? I'm not knocking the philanthropy, but also, his safety net is going to remain about $2 billion dollars larger than ~~mine~~ most every other human being on this entire planet. And it will continue to accrue value at a higher rate than inflation as long as the good ol' American engine keeps on chugging along as normal.
From his vantage point, this sacrifice will likely impact neither his daily lifestyle nor his long-term comfort one iota.
It's a great thing he's doing, and I want to be clear about that. He's giving a boatload of money to charity. And I also don't know what else he might be doing with the remainder. I might be being an asshole. I haven't even read the article. I just saw that fuckin guy and the shining headline and had a strong reaction.
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Why not hate on the billionaires who aren't giving away billions of dollars?
Tankies can't have us cracking their fragile absolute values.
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The most whitewashed billionaire in existence. Insane people still buy into this slush fund campaign.
Bill Gates is more evil than Elon Musk.
How so? Specifically?
Cause Musk is actively trying to destroy democracy and kill poor people.
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For real, but since Old Evil Billionaire is piling on New Evil Billionaire, he becomes Sweet Old Philantropist. Gates made his fortune by stabbing everyone on the back and charging them for the knife.
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