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How many children died because Bill Gates lobbied for the Oxford Covid-19 vaccine to be patented?
This. Thank you.
That was a villain level move from Gates. The behaviour of the rich nations towards the LICs over covid vaccines was absolutely shameful and destroyed the illusion of Gates' benevolence.
I really do think it would be fun to compile all of the billionaires in the world and just have them fight to the death in a gladiator kind of rig. Would be awesome.
I feel like the only way it would work is if they got to keep the money of whoever they killed as long as that person had over a billion dollars... and I would almost be OK with that.
I like to imagine it would reduce the collateral damage the rest of society faces when these people have a dick waving contest.
Roided out billionaires with their hearts exploding out their chests from experimental steroids would really mix things up in a good way. He'll maybe we'd get some truly sick cybernetic out of it too.
Kat and Kropp get in an argument over the war as they rest from an hour’s worth of drill (occasioned by Tjaden’s not saluting a major properly). Kat believes the war would be over if leaders gave all the participants “the same grub and the same pay,” as he says in a rhyme. Kropp believes the leaders of each country should fight each other in an arena to settle the war; the “wrong” people currently do the fighting.
Erich Maria Remarque - All Quiet on the Western Front 1929
Well he can't exactly kill the world 's richest, can he? Its a stronger indictment about the risks of wealth inequality than about the morality of the rich.
Sounds more like someone has seen the world turning on the worthless shit that are billionaires NOT that someone has seen the light and wants to make the world a better place...
Credit where credit is due, Bill Gates has been putting his money where his mouth is for decades now.
We don't don't need princes or kings doing PR. If we taxed billionaires out of existence we could fund that and so much more. This guy doesn't get to make up for whatever he was doing on Epstein's plane, at least not without coming clean first.
We could do so much more, but would we? USAID was just shuttered. There's every chance that money would go into the military industrial complex or something equally unpleasant.
Not defending billionaires as a concept (they shouldn't exist, and most aren't as philanthropic as Bill), but I will acknowledge he's doing a lot of good with his money.
Yeah, TBF that foundation has done a lot of good.
I bet they both taste bad.
I’ll try anything tho.
No need for envy. He owns enough farmland that he can easily top Musk by rising prices to let many more children starve to death.
Pretty sure he doesn't care
Or he considers that a good thing. It's more likely that you think.
He's a breeder and a eugenicist. He believes the strong/successful should reproduce (how many kids does he have now?) and those less fortunate should die off.
Which makes him a darkest evil soul
Lmao Bill Gates ......you can save them you got 100s of billions as well
Gates, 69, on Thursday announced plans to spend virtually his entire fortune over the next 20 years, during which time he estimates his foundation will spend more than $200 billion on global health, development, and education against $100 billion over the previous 25 years. The Gates Foundation will close its doors in 2045, decades earlier than previously envisaged.
Yeah sounds like he's trying
That's great and all but the problem still exists that individuals are able to amass SO much wealth and power and get to decide where it goes. Billionaires should NOT exist.
That's not Gate's fault.
Now the rest of the billionaires can jump in but the greedy fucking dragons won't.
God damn, you outrage addicts can't let one single thing be good, huh