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Good as far as we know until they get Cosby'd

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[โ€“] [email protected] 58 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

โ€ข That's good for climate change?

โ€ข 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.

โ€ข Oh you know him well, could you make a meeting happen? I have an idea

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago
  • 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago

Also introduced voucher schools because he didn't want teachers telling him laptops won't solve education