1d ago

Bill Gates vows to give away 99 per cent of his fortune by 2045

www.watoday.com.au

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Maybe pay some fucking taxes first, Bill.
- I'm fairly certain he pays every last cent he government asks of him.
  The problem is that the government has been unwilling to ask for more, and the current one certainly won't.
  He has been advocating for higher taxes for while though, like backing the Washington Income Tax initiative with his father:
  Bill Gates Sr., father of the Microsoft Corp. co-founder, and about two dozen other supporters of Initiative 1098 turned in 350,000 petition signatures Thursday in Olympia, many more than the roughly 241,000 required to get on the ballot. The campaign says it will turn in an additional 20,000 Friday. Gates said that it was time “to make our tax code fair for the middle class and small businesses.”
  
  He has been advocating for higher taxes for while though
  Yeah, that's called PR. The billionaires love living in a world where they can say they support something and take credit for that position in full knowledge that they'll never actually be held accountable for it.
  
  Yo this motherfucker fights diseases that kills millions and absolutely is nowhere near Musk or his shit filled ilk
  Stop consuming right wing propaganda. This dude tries more than most let humans be human fuck sake not like he set this system up
  
  But doesn't support FOSS tech
  
  I'm not going to praise someone for throwing in an amount that, to you and me, is equivalent to a few dollars. Proportionate to our income, I've donated more to fighting malaria than Gates. This is basically purchasing PR.
  Stop consuming right wing propaganda.
  I'm on the FOSS instance, we've been hating Gates since 1976.
  not like he set this system up
  He's one of the very few people with the individual power to change it.
  
  This dude has that button box that says "press me for a million dollars but someone somewhere will be hurt" and he spends his days pressing that button over, and over, and over, and over again.
  If he wants my affection, he needs to do this now. I will 100% change my tune if he wakes up tomorrow and donates 99% of his wealth here, in the US.
  Also, I think the world would be a better place if people didn't simp for billionaires. His business practices are robbing all of us of value we should be getting for our taxes.
  
  donates 99% of his wealth here, in the US.
  Why would he do that when he could donate money to helping the worlds poorest people have access to clean water and education...?
  
  His business practices are the result of a very toxic business landscape that operates on corrupt business practices.
  He still spent a good chunk of his wealth battling something
  
  He also invented that toxic landscape, ever heard of E.E.E
  
  And that is exactly what he and his class makes sure of via their politics and clandestine political ~~bribery~~ lobbying efforts.

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