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Bill Gates: Undecided about a hypothetical Warren v. Trump matchup
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No, that's not why people are wary of Gates. This is such blatant bullshit.
Gates is not 'doing more good than a government', because the places he is doing the most good are places in which his wealth dwarfs the nations' GDP several times over. It is entirely possible that if he gave his money to those nations to invest and spend themselves they may do far more good than he can (after all, they have a much better understanding of their people, their needs, and culture than he does). But he doesn't do that, because that would mean relinquishing control.
I'm not rich and it bothers me because it suggests the violent elimination of a class of people.
that is the thing, I don't agree with this sentiment. Upper limit on wealth and influence? Curtail wealth and influence? Definitely.
You know, maybe no one needs to be a billionaire, it doesn't matter how much philanthropy you hide behind. The billionaire class is inherently immoral and perverse, no matter how you cut it.
Then why didn't those irreplaceable cogs jump ship as soon as Gates began to exploit them, leaving Gates to fail miserably?
Alabama literally has third world poverty rates so maybe he could throw a little money this way so folks wouldn't have raw sewage flowing into their yards
"The totally unrealistic hyperbolic hypothetical thought of only having $6 billion makes me seriously consider voting for and supporting an incompetent white supremacist"
And people are giving him a pass?
And people are giving him a pass?
Because that's not how life works. Most people can't just jump ship, also most corporations operate in ways that exploit labor, it's baked into our society.
Can you word that first graf to be more coherent? Because it doesn't make any sense. Correct me if I'm misreading this, but it sounds like you're saying I, as a socialist, should be happy that he stole the wages of his workers because he "redistributed" some of their money towards poor people in other countries? And you then assumed that socialism and communism can be used interchangeably and that this is a thing that socialists and communists should want?
Do I have that right, because that's sure how it reads?
I called it incoherent, because I'm assuming you can't possibly mean it the way it reads because of how wrong that would be. The alternative is that what you wrote is exactly what you meant, in which case you should probably first learn literally anything about socialism before calling ANYONE naive on the topic. But I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt and assuming some wires got crossed or something.
by the statement "I don't want to make political declarations". There's plenty of reasons why one would choose to not declare their support for now.
From supporting another democratic nominee, to not wanting your dumb administration blacklisting his foundation on working with the government.
On the latter it's very understandable, with his foundation actually making some notable progress in the philantrophic work they chose to step in.
A class of people pushing against paying a reasonable percent in taxes to protect what they already have in abundance and will gladly throw a small piece* of the vast resources they have back to those so socioeconomically removed from them (through a legacy building foundation bearing their name) it's literally absurd. To the degree that they question supporting a slightly progressive capitalist nominee vs fucking Trump.
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Because I don't think that the OP particularly misrepresents Gates' argument.
If I could, I might edit the thread title... I guess I don't know that he's "undecided," even though I do know that he's too cowardly/self-serving to take a stand against Trump.
But he can't exert the same level of control over Alabama as he can countries in Africa.
They are a lot of Temporarily Embarrassed Millionaires here, worried about all the taxes they'll pay when they finally win the lottery/inherit millions from a rich relative they never knew existed...
I frankly think this is wrong, governments of poor countries tend to be super corrupt, but even if it's not, it's still unquestionably better morally speaking that Gates donates money to poor countries rather than the US Government or MSFT workers.
The OP and the article the OP is based on are missing context, and as such, did not lead to good discussion, so we are closing this thread to further replies.
We are not barring discussion of Gates' comments in a thread with a better source and OP.
We are not barring discussion of Gates' comments in a thread with a better source and OP.
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