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retrospectology@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

And has produced mostly expensive failures which they simply abandoned.

This is because Bill Gates is just a guy who helped cobble together a computer in his garage with his dad’s money, he doesn’t know jack about education and has repeatedly ignored the advice of experts because it wasn’t what he wanted to try.

We place too much virtue on wealth in this country, just because someone has accumulated a lot of wealth doesn’t mean they should be allowed to tinker with our society and try out ideas they had in a dream or w/e.

Instead they should just pay their taxes.

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maynarkh@feddit.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

who helped cobble together a computer in his garage with his dad’s money

And the sold it with his mom’s connections.

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protist@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
To be fair, that article’s only about one of their education initiatives, and they’ve had many

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- retrospectology@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  They mention two, but it’s enough to make the point. There’s no justification for Gates to be at the helm, if he wants to help he can donate money to the groups and institutions that actually know what they’re doing or, as I said, just pay his taxes.
  
  There’s no reason for him to be meddling, his ignorance is actually making the money less effective.
  
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