I think it’s too little too late. Not for Gates but for this kind of philanthropy. We need it, yes, but corrupt governments can outlast goodwill. He needs to be exerting influence. He and other so-called “good billionaires” need to be the anti-Musk, not the ones that walk behind him and clean up his messes. Make more Tesla and Starlink and Amazon competitors with air-tight bylaws to keep them from turning into the thing we’re trying to destroy. Don’t just show compassion but how we can have a compassionate and sustainable economy.
Agreed, but I don’t think they want to try that hard.
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Bill Gates is probably one of the best billionaires.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but last time I checked, he hadn’t snuffed it yet?
Best billionaire my ass. Same meaning as “nicest serial killer”, or “rapist that leaves a mint on the pillow”. Screw you for even saying “best billionaire”.
Considering how much trouble I have paying my fucking bills in this country I’d sure love to have a piece of that money. Fucking rich people.
Surely this will make us forget about their war profiteering
Giving away 200 billion dollars means having 200 billion dollars. Bill Gates might be one of the 'better billionaires, but just the act of hoarding that much capital is harmful, let alone the method used to obtain it.
Philanthropy shows us a breif glimpse of what life would be like if wealth were equally distributed.
Now he can explain why he fought against the COVID vaccine ip being distributed freely. I wonder how many people he indirectly harmed with that action
That’s how all his Charities are. It’s all bullshit. None of them are actually help people. They always involve private funding of some bullshit that’s going to harm the world. Never public good, for a guy who’s entire career is based upon the use of free software he spent his entire life killing anything that could be free and open to people.
He’s the poster boy for capitalism. Take something given in good faith for the betterment of humanity, wall it off so that they HAVE to come to you to get it, and then make your millions while having to do nothing for anyone to keep up your monopoly.
People like him want to turn the world into a bizarro Chuck E. Cheese where all of us “poors” have to pay for each and every breath.
He’s done way more damage than just harming the poor unfortunately.
Good thing he exploited all of those people, now he’ll get some good PR.
Billionaires should not exist. Being a better person than Elon Musk is the lowest bar a human can possibly clear.
Totally agree. Open Letter to Hobbyists will be his legacy. Embrace Extend Extinguish will be his legacy.
IDK. Something tells me we aren’t done hearing about his ties to Epstein or him sleeping around as CEO.
Imagine life was a game. You lived for 2025 years. You worked 260 days / year. You made the median US salary.
You would need to relive that process 3,145 times to match an Oligarch.
That amount of wealth is unethical while humanity suffers. No one can really fathom “1b dollars.”
Go to your local big box store and find one of the aisles that’s got pallets loaded up on the upper shelves.
Those pallets are 48" square and the shelves are generally 36" tall though sometimes they’re taller.
A pallet of 100 dollar bills, stacked neatly and put in one of the 36" shelves would be about 125 million dollars.
You’d need 8 of them to get to a billion.
1 million seconds is about 11 days.
1 billion seconds is about 32 years.
If you worked at an hourly rate of $1000, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, you’ll need to work for 114 years to earn a billion dollars.
In a more “realistic” scenario, $17/h, 10 hours per day, no weekends or holidays, it would take you more than 16000 years.
I’ve always liked the seconds one because time is something anyone can relate to, and the gap there is staggering. Of course then there’s a trillion seconds, which is almost 32,000 years.
What’s the difference between a million dollars and a billion dollars? About a billion dollars.
So… Where did that $200 Billion come from?
He worked 500000 times as hard as other people! It’s well deserved! If you worked 168 hours a week instead of 40, and 120000 times as hard, you could easily make that, too.
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Right, Gates is no saint. He became a billionaire the same way they all do, and he has caused a lot of unnecessary suffering in the world.
But that doesn’t invalidate his criticism of Musk. If anything, he’s speaking from experience, with his unique perspective from atop the same mountain. Doing charitable work doesn’t change the past, but it can change the future.
Gates probably disagrees with me, but at least he acknowledges the problem.
Fun fact, because of the sheer quantity of fucking people over Gates is guilty of in his time at Microsoft, we can assume that at least a handful of the people he screwed died prematurely as a direct result of Gates’ actions. Something about every 1% increase in unemployment sees an accompanying increase of 37,000 deaths by various means.
Bill Gates killed people, is what I’m getting at.
And let’s not forget Clippy.
Can someone recommend me some good local LLMs I can get from HuggingFace? I’m new to all of this stuff, but running it locally with “Clippy” seems like a fun thing to do when I’m bored and don’t have anything to do. (I usually don’t have a lot of time, but damn it, I want to at least try this stuff once!)
When a guy whose wife divorced him because he wouldn’t quit hanging out with a sex trafficker goes after you, you must really be a monstrous piece of shit.
