Comment on Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever

• thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Gates is still very active in his charity organization

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  • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Making money/influence. It’s such a scam his “Bill and Melinda Charity” (no taxes on charities).

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    • LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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      • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Their pr firm seems to function very well at least.

        Guess you’re going to whitewash bezos, musk and zuckerberg next?

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      • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Name one bad historical person that didn’t do at least some good.

        Your moral compass is broken.

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    • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s still giving money away though? Why would you want there to be taxes on charity?

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      • fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It’s more nuanced though. Here’s how rich people use charities to gain wealth:

        Rich person has tons of money that would be taxed if bill Y passes. Rich person creates a charity and donated 20% of what they would had to pay to the IRS to the charity, with that money the charity uses half for good causes and half is given to X lobby company, which then lobbies politicians to avoid passing that bill.

        In the end, the rich person saved 80% of what they would had to pay.

        Yeah, 10% went to good causes but imagine what the society could afford if 100% went through instead of 0.

        This is a very rough outline of how they do it, but the summary is that they use charities to donate to lobbies while skipping taxes on the donation itself.

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      • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        The point here is that in many jurisdictions doing charity exempts you from certain taxes, and it is possible to shuffle money around under the disguise of philanthropy while still getting all the financial benefits like an actual charity

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      • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Because they are tax avoidance mechanism first and charity seconds.

        Money is a brokering system of power, charitues being tax free makes these entities unaccountable to democratic institurions.

        That’s how we ended up with this infection of corrupt megachurches.

        The “prosperity gospel” is billionaire-serving propaganda. It empowers their formation, growth and necessary abuses that come from such widespread exploitation.

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      • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Giving away money? You sweet summer child.

        Research don’t want “his” (the foundations) money, it comes with so many strings attached all your lives work now belongs to the B&M foundation.

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    • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Search the web for “polio”

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      • floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        en.wikipedia.org/…/Global_Polio_Eradication_Initi…

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      • Slovene@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Google en passant.

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    • dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      (no taxes on charities).

      What type of taxes are you talking about?

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  • farngis_mcgiles@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    “charity”

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• PacMan@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Linus still approves the changes in the kernel. His main baby for the past 15 years or so has been GIT.

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  • offspec@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I think he maintained git at its inception for like 6 months and then passed it off to someone else, but I could be completely mistaken.

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• JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  That means there are highschool seniors who weren’t even alive while Bill Gates was at Microsoft.

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  • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS 👏🎸

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    • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That was balmer though, IIRC. Crazy times

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      • floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I recently learned that Steve Ballmer is a chairman of and big donor to the Jewish National Fund, “Ballmer serves on the World Chairman’s Council of the Jewish National Fund, an organization dedicated to supporting Jewish communities and projects in Israel.” The JNF supports the Israeli military and the settlers in the West Bank. This made me like Steve Ballmer slightly less.

        shopisrael.com/…/does-steve-ballmer-support-israe…

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      • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It was Balmer, but Gates was in the back clapping along and jumping over a chair lmao

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  • RagingRobot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’m sure if they work there they know who he is though lol but possibly I suppose

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