Who are some people in powerful positions or 1%ers that are genuinely good people?
Who are some people in powerful positions or 1%ers that are genuinely good people?
Good as far as we know until they get Cosby'd
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Closest I can think of is post-Microsoft Bill Gates, with the humanitarian/healthcare stuff he's been involved in. He was a total piece of shit as Microsoft's CEO, though, what with the aggressive anti-trust practices and all. Not that the ones that came after were much better (especially Ballmer).
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What Gates is doing right now is a massive publicity stunt to make people believe he's actually a "good person". He is not. He is still a disgusting billionaire that contradicts everything he preaches.
- He is constantly buying farmland, to the point where he's the biggest land owner in the whole US. This is seriously harming small farmers.
- He preaches about climate change and using cardboard straws while in his massive ($650M!) mega yacht
- The "humanitarian/healthcare" stuff he did, while helpful, was only done because he could use it as a tax writeoff. He wouldn't have done it if it wasn't the case.
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Also introduced voucher schools because he didn't want teachers telling him laptops won't solve education
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• That's good for climate change?
• He has unimaginable influence. Doesn't the change he makes outweight his mega yacht? (Yes I now how ridiculously expensive these monster ships are) I doubt he is only committing to netto his yacht.
• Oh you know him well, could you make a meeting happen? I have an idea
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- How is that good for climate change?
- Nobody listens to this guy. Have you been recycling just cuz Gates told you to? Also these kinds of yachts pollute so much with a single trip that it outweighs any good that he could have done by convincing millions to save electricity or water.
- I don't need to know him well. It's not rocket science.
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The Gates foundation explicitly lobbied against Oxford's initial plan to open source their covid vaccine. Gates' worship of intellectual propery law is responsible for the patent on the astrazeneca vaccine. The project was initially started under the hope that the third world being able to manufacture their own vaccines without owing royalties would be important in limiting the spread of covid.
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Bill Gates’ PR machine strikes again.
- 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'
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Billionaire philanthropy doesn't have to be selfless, my donations to relief aids are tax deductible too.
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When people say "climbing the corporate ladder" the only image that comes to mind is a ladder shape made of coworkers and whoever is capable of stepping on more heads is declared the winner
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