Bill Gates has also literally saved more lives and helped more impoverished people than you and the the closest 500 people you know. Yes, no one, no matter what they invent, create, or build, should be worth over a billion dollars, but unlike Amazon employees or wal mart, no one working at Microsoft ever needed food stamps and he stopped amassing wealth a long time ago, and even convinced some of his retarded wealthy friends to do the same.
If you’ve never dug deeply into the ramifications of the Gates’ charity work, you might be surprised how much they use charity and their organizations to exert influence and control over the regions they help. It isn’t purely from the goodness of their hearts: billionaire philanthropy is both a PR tactic for washing over their bad behaviors and a way of creating a captive, dependent population that you can control.
What regions has gates gained control of, and for what purpose? He’s not trying to control the government of the country he lives in, and he already has a bottomless supply of money and investments, so what’s he after?
Imagine how many lives could have been saved with the appropriate allocation of those resources Gates never paid in taxes. We shouldn’t allow billionaires to take all that wealth and decide unilaterally who gets to be helped and who doesn’t.
Gates has gone on the record a ton of times saying that the more wealthy you are, the more taxes you should be paying.
Also, don’t kid yourself. If the US government taxed him appropriately over the years you’re talking what? Fifty billion? A hundred billion total? The US spends over six TRILLION dollars a year. You think they’re just an extra like five billion a year in tax collecting away from free school lunches or Healthcare for all? We already have the money in the US to make things better for us. Our corrupt government system is what’s holding that up. You aren’t going to get extra help by them getting more in taxes.
I clicked and read the second link there from the nation. It’s just an opinion piece from a guy ranting about not agreeing with how Gates has been giving away his money and that he was still also making money on investments. You could post a dozen links like that going the other way really easily as well. Fact check still shows he’s given away $50,000,000,000.
Bill Gates has also literally saved more lives and helped more impoverished people than you and the the closest 500 people you know. Yes, no one, no matter what they invent, create, or build, should be worth over a billion dollars, but unlike Amazon employees or wal mart, no one working at Microsoft ever needed food stamps and he stopped amassing wealth a long time ago, and even convinced some of his retarded wealthy friends to do the same.
If you’ve never dug deeply into the ramifications of the Gates’ charity work, you might be surprised how much they use charity and their organizations to exert influence and control over the regions they help. It isn’t purely from the goodness of their hearts: billionaire philanthropy is both a PR tactic for washing over their bad behaviors and a way of creating a captive, dependent population that you can control.
What regions has gates gained control of, and for what purpose? He’s not trying to control the government of the country he lives in, and he already has a bottomless supply of money and investments, so what’s he after?
Imagine how many lives could have been saved with the appropriate allocation of those resources Gates never paid in taxes. We shouldn’t allow billionaires to take all that wealth and decide unilaterally who gets to be helped and who doesn’t.
Gates has gone on the record a ton of times saying that the more wealthy you are, the more taxes you should be paying.
Also, don’t kid yourself. If the US government taxed him appropriately over the years you’re talking what? Fifty billion? A hundred billion total? The US spends over six TRILLION dollars a year. You think they’re just an extra like five billion a year in tax collecting away from free school lunches or Healthcare for all? We already have the money in the US to make things better for us. Our corrupt government system is what’s holding that up. You aren’t going to get extra help by them getting more in taxes.
That is what Bill Gates’ PR machine wants you to believe.
Adam Ruins Everything - Why Billionaire Philanthropy is Not So Selfless
The Nation: Why Bill Gates’s Philanthropy Is a Problem
I clicked and read the second link there from the nation. It’s just an opinion piece from a guy ranting about not agreeing with how Gates has been giving away his money and that he was still also making money on investments. You could post a dozen links like that going the other way really easily as well. Fact check still shows he’s given away $50,000,000,000.
They’re shit “facts” whose purpose is to hide how oligarchies work.
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Didn’t he straight up prevent vaccine creation by torpedoing the public domaining of covid vaccines, killing millions?