He’s always been a ruthless capitalist scumbag.
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boyi@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months agoBill Gates during the early years, yes. But now, I thought he’s turned 180®.
MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
barryamelton@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
He is now slowly trying to buyy what rich people normally can’t buy; acceptance and recognition. Don’t fall for it. He keeps doing the same criminal things in parallel.
cheddar@programming.dev 2 months ago
Do you mean when he started to chip the population through the covid vaccines? jkjk
0x0@programming.dev 2 months ago
No, that was 5G!
/s (<- somehow this is needed)
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Bill Gates pressured the group at Oxford University not to open source their Covid vaccine, as it would undermine his investments in pharma companies.
(The team had originally secured funding from the UK gov in condition that they make it open source so that it would be more accessible to poorer countries.)
Imagine lobbying against that. Imagine knowingly making life saving medicine more expensive and less accessible, particularly to the poor.
The guy is a dick. He just spends money on good PR so people can remember him as a good guy.
Crashumbc@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah, he “mostly” was successful at following the Carnegie and Rockefeller plan of convincing people you’re a philanthropist in your later years so you’re remembered fondly.