Me, ten years ago: "So cool that Bill Gates is spearheading the effort to eliminate common diseases in Africa."
Me, last year: "Dafuq is this shit, Bill?"
Me, today: :gui-better:
Marx actually talks about "philanthropists" like Gates and how they're nothing more than slave drivers. They do "philanthropy" in order to maintain the workforce at subsistence levels and are actually worse than slave owners because the people they're "supporting" aren't even their property/something they'd give even a partial shit about, so they'll just let them die or kill them when they don't need them anymore.
Hey, I just finished the abridged version of Capital and some other works of his and it's just insane how literally nothing has changed except the methods of exchange have expedited.
linus torvalds like "i fucking told you bro, I tried to warn you, didn't fucking listen!"
But wait, it gets worse!
Asked to explain why not, Gates — whose massive fortune as founder of Microsoft relies largely on intellectual property laws that turned his software innovations into tens of billions of dollars in personal wealth — said: "Well, there's only so many vaccine factories in the world and people are very serious about the safety of vaccines. And so moving something that had never been done — moving a vaccine, say, from a [Johnson & Johnson] factory into a factory in India — it's novel — it's only because of our grants and expertise that that can happen at all."
Literally just: "Bow before us peasants, only by our grace can you get vaccinated at all!"
Does he know that India and Israel make a shit ton of generic drugs for the Us market?
yeah pretty much guy sucks, only got where he is cause his parents were bigwigs who helped him in his early career
remember when the government "split up" Microsoft's monopoly and realistically nothing changed? rad
people legit stan this guy and says he is one of the most important people for human rights and health lol. He has some absolutely geocidal views on Africa, and is one of the biggest ecofascists ever
ever since being the most hated man in technology in the 90s, he has spent big millions on PR annually for decades
Also very true, I doubt even 5% of the population understands how so many high profile people like him and Musk have a goddamn team of PR people writing fluff pieces about them every goddamn week
Also George W Bush has like 50%+ approval ratings right now, after leaving office with 10%
Local programmer of the most virus-laden, buggy, disfunctional operating system set his sights to make IRL just as virus-laden and disfunctional
surely this has nothing to do with either his desire to protect his own wealth via IP law or his burning urge to eliminate all people in the global south
I think it's entirely the latter, these ghouls are all over-population dipshits because the only other explanation for the problems of the world implicates them directly.
remember when the CIA did that fake vaccination program in the hunt for Osama Bin Laden? ghouls
and from what I remember it wouldn't have cost very much to use real vaccines instead and achieve the same results, they just wanted to add extra evil
our official podcast has covered this a couple of times if people want to learn more
If your loved ones die of COVID 19 from here forward, Bill Gates killed them.
What the hell does he care anyway? Microsoft doesn't have a vaccine.
He was the asshole who got oxford to sell their originally open-source vaccine to those knobs at AstraZeneca. He's a fucking ghoul.
Yes but why? What stake does he have in this? Does he just get off on closed-sourcing everything?
(I mean, knowing the history of Microsoft.....)
Two things:
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He has a stake in companies that stand to benefit.
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He's a crusader for stricter IP laws. Has been for decades. Long, good read
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