Whats with Bill Gates?
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That article is much ado about nothing. He knew Epstein and met him occasionally. So did every other billionaire and politician. Unlike some other of Epstein’s associates, there’s nothing to suggest Gates indulged or was even aware of Epstein’s excesses.
The question was about whether a billionaire had done anything good.
Agreed - he is somewhere between a shitty husband or a monster, but he definitely has helped rid the world of some bad diseases, and his charities continue to do quite a bit of good around the world.
In the old days, you could just pay the church for absolution; now, you have to rid the world of diseases. SMH
Inflation is everywhere nowadays. In my day you could get absolution for a nickel.
Thank you
No he is alright of cours , he spends Milllons on Media to obscure why he keeps the patents …
if you dont think Bill ates is good and awsome , those millions would have been wasted , so please inthe name of the most influencal Patent holder for third World Country illnesses …
he is good , No really! Have you read the papers he pays…
Anything good?
Then all of them. They are human beings, not black holes of pure evil.
I need a source for that.
Millburn Pennybags or Uncle Pennybags gave you $200 every time you passed go.
He owed society much more than that, do no.
The guy who ran Cuyamel back when they were bribing the Honduran government and after that the United Fruit Company supposedly spent the rest of his life drafting social welfare legal proposals for democrats. Which given just how evil the United Fruit Company was is more of an indictment of new deal legislation than anything else tbh.
There’s a lot. In the late 1800s it started becoming something of a tradition for billionaires to move on to philanthropy after their retirement. J.D. Rockefeller was worth several hundred billion dollars in today’s money. He gave away close to 200 billion of it.
A more modern example that people have brought up is Bill Gates.
Yep, they are trying to buy a spot in heaven.
So they’re ferengi, got it
They’ve all done at least one good thing that’s a insanely low bar that’s very subjective. Name one that isn’t more good than harm in the world? They don’t exist.
You haven’t looked beyond the surface of Gates philanthropy. His involvement diverts focus away from critically acclaimedneeded work in these regions for his pet projects - the science doesn’t dictate the focus, the whims of the billionaires do.
What? They’re greedy humans who are doing things that have terrible consequences out of selfishness, not mustache twirling cartoon villains out to destroy the world for destruction’s sake. I’m sure every single billionaire in the world has done something good at some point. That doesn’t justify the kind of wealth disparity that makes their existence possible though.
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How is what they said wrong lmao. They literally acknowledge that doing individual good things doesn’t justify the wealth disparity. Every word of what they said is 100% accurate. The worst humans do individually good things sometimes and the title of the thread is NOT about the net good or bad the person did. I don’t think you read the title of the thread. I think you’re just dunk/upbear thirsty. I hate this element of hexbear sometimes.
You conveniently left out the definition of “good” so you can move the goalposts if you don’t like the answers you get.
Good is never a perfectly internally consistent category, we always have to discuss it. We just don’t start with the incorrect preconception that there’s such things as universal definitions except as relative claims. “The only universal is the relative” or something like Hegel said.
Good is anything that Pixel of Life annoys
Mark Cuban is a bit of a wall street asshole, but he’s created a drug company to slash the prices of generic drugs for Americans: https://www.npr.org/2022/01/24/1075344246/mark-cuban-pharmacy#:~:text=Billionaire investor and Dallas Mavericks,of its online pharmacy Wednesday.
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Do you have anything of substance to add here or are you just going to continue replying “wrong” to everyone you disagree with as if your opinion is the absolute arbiter of truth?
OK I’m sorry maybe I’m letting the autism overflow my brain but seeing you just say “wrong” to technically correct statements that answer the question presented here is just so fucking annoying. Ooooo you got so many upbears from fellow Hexbears who dont want to think but just dunk. Getting very frusterated with this community right now.
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Don’t treat a fellow hexbear like the lemmy liberals please. We literally have rules about that.
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For sure! I wanted to make sure someone chimed in on this. I forwarded it to an elderly hospital roommate who was extremely appreciative.
Trick question.
The billionaires who do good don’t want their names attached to their deeds because that defeats the purpose. The point of altruism is you don’t want credit.
(Seriously there aren’t many, though, because if you’re hoarding money, you’re a horrible person.)
Warren Buffet invented the buffet (I think) and I met my girlfriend at a buffet. She is a paramedic, I lost consciousness because I drank 4 litres of the truffle bechamel (I did the maths and this would have cost the restaurant slightly more money than the admission fee, hence hurting Warren Buffet’s bottom line)
Tony Khan created AEW and seems to genuinely care about his employees. He put on a private plane this week so the wrestlers could attend the funeral of Bray Wyatt and still make it to Dynamite
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As a wrestling fan, what giddy described is pretty much true. For a billionaire, Tony is “nice” (too nice, because his niceness has lead to a toxic backstage environment, though he did finally fire CM Punk so thats nice). Like sure it doesn’t outweight the exploitation inherent in being a billionaire, but Tony is indeed a “nice guy” and does go out of his way to do nice things for his employees. Also gives them health insurance in an industry where thats not the standard and such.
And the question was “a billionaire who done anything good” not “a billionaire who’s overally contribution to the world is good”. Giddy answered the question correctly. Sorry to autism you with pedantry but like, I have to insist on some technically accurateness here.
Like honestly, did you even know who Tony was before this post or did you just respond wrong because you were going to do that to anyone who said any billionaire did something good? Are you actually knowledgeable about this subject?
I’m not saying he doesnt get the wall in a revolution or anything. But the post asked “Did anything good”, and he did. he did good things for his employees.
the Titan that shipwrecked on the way to the Titanic shipwreck was pretty neat.
Still waiting for bezos to launch himself into the sun tho
Nah, his rockets aren’t good enough to do that. He’s going to get stuck in orbit and asphyxiate, and we can all watch his rocket burn up on re-entry and point and laugh.
Paul Allen funded a bunch of scientific and medical research, as well as quite a few museums and other public works around Seattle. He was the largest private donor to the fight against Ebola in Africa.
Sergey Brin is a big Wikimedia contributor, as came out a few years back when their donor list leaked.
also you should check out his card
TRY GETTING A RESERVATION AT DORSIA NOW!!!
It’s even got a watermark.
