Using all his money and influence to advocate taxing the super rich significantly would be helpful.
How about by tomorrow you sadistic evil fuck?
You may have spent billions to look pretty and nice to people but nobody should forget how he got those billions in the first place
I’ll give him credit for it when it fucking happens
Bill Gates is 69. By 2045 he’s going to be 89. What’s he going to do with all that money at 89 anyways, after he kept it all his life.
These people usually give it to their children to establish modern nobility.
Though it’s better than hoarding, a billionaire can’t even give away their money without wielding a dangerous amount of influence on all of our lives.
In 20 years, while still sitting on a mountain of money… All rich people are evil. The sooner people realize this, the better.
I would hazard a guess that you live in a first world country, and therefore would be considered rich by those who do not. Therefore, by your own definition, you are evil.
Bill Gates deserves a lot of shit for creating the original big tech monopoly. But I’ll say this about him: At least he’s not hoarding his money to build a secretive compound to hold hundreds of kids he spawned with right wing crazy women for the purpose of creating a future master race.
How do you know this? It would cost less than 1% of his wealth, and it was an objective of his good friend Jeffrey Epstein.
I’ll take whatever win I can get at this point. I just hope that it’s actually going to good causes that will actually help people and not just bullshit money laundering “charity” shell games.
People don’t usually write public annual newsletters about their money laundering schemes.
Because people aren’t usually rich enough to be able to set up tax exempt foundations.
Maybe pay some fucking taxes first, Bill.
I’m fairly certain he pays every last cent he government asks of him.
The problem is that the government has been unwilling to ask for more, and the current one certainly won’t.He has been advocating for higher taxes for while though, like backing the Washington Income Tax initiative with his father:
Bill Gates Sr., father of the Microsoft Corp. co-founder, and about two dozen other supporters of Initiative 1098 turned in 350,000 petition signatures Thursday in Olympia, many more than the roughly 241,000 required to get on the ballot. The campaign says it will turn in an additional 20,000 Friday. Gates said that it was time “to make our tax code fair for the middle class and small businesses.”
He has been advocating for higher taxes for while though
Yeah, that’s called PR. The billionaires love living in a world where they can say they support something and take credit for that position in full knowledge that they’ll never actually be held accountable for it.
Yo this motherfucker fights diseases that kills millions and absolutely is nowhere near Musk or his shit filled ilk
Stop consuming right wing propaganda. This dude tries more than most let humans be human fuck sake not like he set this system up
I’m not going to praise someone for throwing in an amount that, to you and me, is equivalent to a few dollars. Proportionate to our income, I’ve donated more to fighting malaria than Gates. This is basically purchasing PR.
Stop consuming right wing propaganda.
I’m on the FOSS instance, we’ve been hating Gates since 1976.
not like he set this system up
He’s one of the very few people with the individual power to change it.
This dude has that button box that says “press me for a million dollars but someone somewhere will be hurt” and he spends his days pressing that button over, and over, and over, and over again.
If he wants my affection, he needs to do this now. I will 100% change my tune if he wakes up tomorrow and donates 99% of his wealth here, in the US.
Also, I think the world would be a better place if people didn’t simp for billionaires. His business practices are robbing all of us of value we should be getting for our taxes.
donates 99% of his wealth here, in the US.
Why would he do that when he could donate money to helping the worlds poorest people have access to clean water and education…?
His business practices are the result of a very toxic business landscape that operates on corrupt business practices.
He still spent a good chunk of his wealth battling something
And that is exactly what he and his class makes sure of via their politics and clandestine political
briberylobbying efforts.
Gates is an unusual man who deserves a lot of praise. Most billionaires only want to build monuments to themselves. Gates has picked off a lot of projects that have virtually no chance of being funded by anyone or anything else. That’s epic and legendary.
he has been milking that good will cow for decades
And it’s working. His charity is extremely visible, while the public doesn’t understand how much he took and deadweight lost with his monopoly.
It’s like a burglar breaking your window, stealing your TV…
…
Years pass…
…
Here have a free TV! I am so generous!
too bad he vouched for vaccines to be only distrubted by the USA, which makes the cost high for poorer countries. people like him have an ulterior motives of what he is doing.
I’ll take some
Plenury indulgences or a carefully structured set of trusts that he will hold shadow control of? Either way i suspect the man sees the wall coming and wishes to avoid being pushed up against it and shot.
Do it now motherfucker.
Yeah, I mean, a quick Google search shows his net worth at 133b. 113b x 0.01 = 1.13 billion dollars.
For context, bill is 69 yo, and the average US male lives to about 76 yo. That’s a difference of six years, or 2190 days. That means that Bill would have to scrape by on just $519,000/day.
That sounds an unbearable way to live. /S
THIS. EXACTLY THIS.
