Bill Gates Shady Business?
Did any of you hear about this?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/16/business/bill-…
Apparently old Bill isn’t as innocent as he led everyone to believe.
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If you ever believed he was just a friendly old man who wanted to help the world, you're either a fucking idiot or just lazy and not paying attention to the plethora of skeptics who write about almost everything he does. He just moved from IP domination in software to pharma, and he's the largest individual owner of farmland in the US. All that said, the man is playing the long game better than any other billionaire (public-facing ones anyway).
I never bought into the whole “friendly old billionaire Bill” act but also didn’t read into a lot the stuff he was/is doing.
I disagree in a sense. Yes, Bill Gates is a fucking creep who used his Dad's influence and money to bully everyone and get to the top.
But bad people don't generally see themselves as bad people. That's the problem. It's this weird form of denial where you always have some excuse. At his age, Bill Gates doesn't want to take over the world. He genuinely wants to help people, or at least feel like he is helping people so he can release dopamine and feel good. I'm sure in his mind he thinks:
Who cares if I make advances onto female employees. I'm not forcing them into anything and giving them full optionality so its fine.
Who cares what my money manager is doing in his free time. I'll just pay his accusers off. He's a nice guy to me, makes me a lot of money, which I will use to help people later.
Who cares if I ignore my wife during our foundation meetings -- its my money because I made it all after all and I know better than her
Who cares if I go to Epstein's parties to meet a bunch of attractive women. I'm not really happy with my marriage and I can do what I want. It's a victimless act and I've already helped so many people.
Who cares if I used my daddy's law firm to dominate software. It's a zero-sum game and now I'm using the money I made to make the world a better place and advance humanity.
I'm sure in his head, Gates is not this scheming guy who has plans to take over the world and molest your children. He has faults like any human, and he has the power and money to indulge in his faults. I'm sure Bill Gates wants to be a good person. He wants to think of himself as one at least.
What are his flaws? He cheated on his wife. He used advantages he had to make money. He makes advances on women that he is attracted to. He overlooks his friend's character flaws.
These are the four fundamental flaws that men make excuses for all the time. They don't make Bill a world-dominating lizard. They make him a man.
You're giving the benefit of the doubt to someone who has once already had to have the federal government step in because of his efforts to control an entire segment of the economy. He's clearly someone that plans years ahead and has been cultivating influence for decades within the public health space, advising governments on population control. At that scale it's not just some naive do-gooder who thinks he's trying to make the world a better place, he knows exactly what he's doing. Better than any of us do that's for damn sure, again, biggest farmland owner in the US. That's not nothing, especially with how much he comments on how it's going to be "so hard to feed all those people". I'm not going so far as to try and make him out to be some kind of TV super villain, but to try and pretend he's anything but a massively powerful oligarch looking to continually consolidate more influence is childish thinking in my opinion.
I heard he's a lizard
He just wants pussy man. Not a big deal at all
I don’t know man, I’m all for getting as much pussy as you can but Gates was friendly with Epstein and may have cheated on his wife. There are lines there a man shouldn’t cross.
I mean, you only live once, and you literally have infinite wealth and no downside in life...easy decision for him
You´re one horny motherfucker, Pizz
Steve Jobs was the guy who wanted the change the world. Bill just wanted to control it. Look up his old videos when Microsoft ruled the guy had technology and resources way ahead of other people.
“The ignorance, prejudices, and groupthink of an educated elite are still ignorance, prejudice, and groupthink—and for those with one percent of the knowledge in a society to be guiding or controlling those with the other 99 percent is as perilous as it is absurd.” Thomas Sowell said that and I feel Bill Gates personifies it.
Sowell truly is a gift to mankind.
If he was banging little boys on Epstein's island, that's obviously wrong.
If all he did was ask out a few employees at Microsoft to a date, who gives a shit?
the issue is this. when you paint a picture of yourself as a morally upright human and are breaking one of the 10 commandments (adultery), you lose your moral status and are therefore a charlatan. I'm not saying his charitable work isn't good, quite frankly I don't know enough about it because I don't give money there, but I take issue with someone who makes endless attempts to appear as a good guy and then cheats on his wife. it's disgusting.
maybe I'm too harsh on cheaters, but I've got no respect for them.
"Breaking ten commandments".....haha, commands by whom?
Completely agree with what you're saying but as someone in my 20's my perspective for the current generations of people and future generations is this.
It's more important to act pious than actually be pious.
As long as you can craft and maintain a certain image than nobody will bat an eyelash at what it is you're doing unless you really screw up (Sacklers and Purdue Pharma with the Opiod crisis/Epstein/Etc). People just don't have enough time to dig into what most wealthy people are doing or don't care enough until it's on the front page of the NYT.
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Yeah, Bill Gates the developer of the evil Microsoft app. The epitome of evil.
Any man that has ties to Epstein after 2008 should no longer be looked as innocent regardless of how much a good person they may seem. Plus, this dude is the modern day Rockafeller with trying to monapolize medicine and other aspects of life. People forget how ruthless this guy was with Microsoft until they got hit with Anit-trust suits.
Bill is a nontarget nobody.
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