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[–] [email protected] 50 points 6 months ago (59 children)
  1. There's no good billionaires
  2. Bill Gates is not any kind of exception
  3. Even in comparison to other living billionaires
[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago (53 children)

Lives have been saved through his funding . Can you see elon or zuck doing that ? Ever ? So in comparison i do consider him good but i could be wrong.

[–] Droggelbecher 25 points 6 months ago (27 children)

The reason is that there just isn't an ethical way to accrue a billion dollars. Stealing from workers labour is an inherent part of becoming a billionaire. Plus, usually some other exploitation too, like fucking others over with patents.

Doing charity with a small fraction of your obscene wealth after this isn't any kind of moral absolution.

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