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Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.
Gates often gets a pass because he gives away a lot of money and "advocates" for a wealth tax. But he's still a billionaire and still hoards more resources and power than any single person could ethically possess.
He should only take advice from Balmer. And to be clear, the cocaine Balmer.
Instructions unclear: drowning in an abundance of photographical developer
Bill Gates is a monopolist whose shady business practices in the 90s and 2000s make him a very evil man.
All billionaires are inherently evil by their own nature. Unless they literally won the lottery with take home $1 billion.
To become a billionaire you have to do some dark Machiavellian deeds whether by exteeme exploitation of human labour or manipulation of the most unethical proportions. A billion in wealth is something quite unimaginable before the 20th century, and the means to obtain that level of wealth in history has always been dark and dirty.
This is libelous. His business practices were also shady in the '70s and '80s.
Nah, not respectfully, bill Gates is a piece of shit who has spent millions in charities to pretend he's a nice guy.
I too can pretend to be really nice by slamming millions around even though I have acted like a shit stain before.
i once tried to question him when he did an AMA like a decade ago, the mods/filters dint allow it though,specifically about him money laundering.
Irrespectfully most tech moguls need to shut the fuck up, especially about shit that has nothing to do with tech
he was always known to be ruthless during his ceo days, his current image is trying to reinvent, and also to soften the blow of him being associated with epstein.
This does have to do with tech because the firm he founded is knee deep in the AI bullshit which is burning energy at an incredible rate.
Lol Bill Gates now openly towing the WEF propaganda line which KurzGesagt produced for him earlier. This is so expected.
To understand the situation see https://youtu.be/ZRPcyWNfgxo
Ladies and gentlemen and others, this is what they call "the good billionaire"!
Why respectfully? Who has Bill Gates shown actual respect for?
Jeffrey Epstein?
ok good point
Epstein, from who melinda seperated from when she found out. his "current entrepuenership, was nothing more than money laundering and reinventing his own image from his MS ceo/epstein days, he did not charity by accident/genuine. plus he was criticized for his "vaccine colonialism" during covid by african countries.
Yeah. Shut the fuck up, Bill.
Disrespectfully, Bill Gates needs to shut the fuck up
High-school dropout nepo-baby Bill Gates? That one?
TBF, he dropped out of Harvard.
The guy that stole IBMs UI setup and made Windows?
Xerox’s
He is getting old and confused, obviously.
Respectfully, Bill Gates is a piece of shit.
Gates does not need to “shut up”. He needs to testify as to what his relationship is with Epstein.
Quiet, you fool! Don't antagonize him. You think all that Windows AI is out there for our benefit? Oh no, it's there for Bill to press the button and blue screen the world. And don't tell me Linux users are safe; that's what the assassination squads are for.
Might I add, also disrespectfully.
But what about my good billionaire? :( /s
I wish someone could just start removing problems for us.
Respectfully, Bill Gates is complicit in genocide and should be investigated for his connections with Epstein.
isnt thats why hes doing "charities" for africans, to reinvent his image because of that, the timing is more than a coincidence, although start way before epstein got on the news, but he probably knew he would be connected to him in the media sooner or later.
I think he and Melinda have been pouring money into charities since he left Microsoft. They have saved countless lives with malaria assistance alone.
~~Respectfully~~, Bill Gates Needs to Shut Up
~~Respectfully~~, Bill Gates Needs to Shut the Fuck Up
Fuck Bill. Let's throw him in the volcano with the other elites
That's wasteful. Pit them against each other in death matches.
on top of a volcano. loser goes in. that would make Hephaestus happy
Maybe there is hope for a world where being rich doesn't mean you are assumed to be wise and all knowing and should be consulted on everything.
Don't ask whether it's distraction from Epstein list, ask whether everything bad is distraction from climate change and wealth inequality.
I remember when he did an AMA on Reddit and every comment about his Epstein connection was instantly buried.