Good thing he exploited all of those people, now he’ll get some good PR.
Billionaires should not exist. Being a better person than Elon Musk is the lowest bar a human can possibly clear.
Imagine life was a game. You lived for 2025 years. You worked 260 days / year. You made the median US salary.
You would need to relive that process 3,145 times to match an Oligarch.
That amount of wealth is unethical while humanity suffers. No one can really fathom “1b dollars.”
Go to your local big box store and find one of the aisles that’s got pallets loaded up on the upper shelves.
Those pallets are 48" square and the shelves are generally 36" tall though sometimes they’re taller.
A pallet of 100 dollar bills, stacked neatly and put in one of the 36" shelves would be about 125 million dollars.
You’d need 8 of them to get to a billion.
1 million seconds is about 11 days.
1 billion seconds is about 32 years.
I’ve always liked the seconds one because time is something anyone can relate to, and the gap there is staggering. Of course then there’s a trillion seconds, which is almost 32,000 years.
What’s the difference between a million dollars and a billion dollars? About a billion dollars.
Surely this will make us forget about their war profiteering
Philanthropy shows us a breif glimpse of what life would be like if wealth were equally distributed.
Giving away 200 billion dollars means having 200 billion dollars. Bill Gates might be one of the 'better billionaires, but just the act of hoarding that much capital is harmful, let alone the method used to obtain it.
So… Where did that $200 Billion come from?
Right, Gates is no saint. He became a billionaire the same way they all do, and he has caused a lot of unnecessary suffering in the world.
But that doesn’t invalidate his criticism of Musk. If anything, he’s speaking from experience, with his unique perspective from atop the same mountain. Doing charitable work doesn’t change the past, but it can change the future.
Gates probably disagrees with me, but at least he acknowledges the problem.
When a guy whose wife divorced him because he wouldn’t quit hanging out with a sex trafficker goes after you, you must really be a monstrous piece of shit.
Now he can explain why he fought against the COVID vaccine ip being distributed freely. I wonder how many people he indirectly harmed with that action
That’s how all his Charities are. It’s all bullshit. None of them are actually to help people. They always involve private funding of some bullshit that’s going to harm the world. Never public good, for a guy who’s entire career is based upon the use of free software he spent his entire life killing anything that could be free and open to people.
