Comment on Bill Gates to give away 99% of his wealth in the next 20 years
taladar@sh.itjust.works 1 day agoHe was also a major opponent of the efforts during Covid to waive medical patents for producers in the global south to allow faster distribution of those vaccines.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Shouldn’t be much of a surprise. His family has always been eugenecists with a “benevolent” mask. Not knocking what his foundation has done against malaria, but I believe he’s said some very direct things about wanting lower birthrates in the global south.
echodot@feddit.uk 15 hours ago
It’s not really about lowering birth rates directly it’s about removing the perceived need for higher birth rates.
There are quite a lot of studies that show that even in countries where infant mortality is now manageable it still takes several generations before that trickles down to the population and they stop having 15 kids as standard. Also lack of sexual education doesn’t help.