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Which CEOs are actually worth keeping around?
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He's not a CEO any more, but Bill Gates is on a mission to die a mere millionaire, and I think has already given away more than half his net worth.
Bill Gates is a massive piece of shit. Don't let all the propaganda he puts out there fool you. When you start looking closer at his so-called charity work it's not nearly as pretty as you might think.
Could you be a little bit more specific with your criticisms of his charity?
He basically gave $54BN to the "Gates and Melinda Charity".
Guess who controls the charity?
Guess if the "Charity" pays taxes?
It's crazy how fast people simp for billionaires, old evil shitty hated-by-all billionaires too, just because they spend some publicities around.
To be clear, I'm not "simping" for Bill Gates. No one becomes a billionaire ethically and I don't feel the need to defend him as a person. But I also don't just read a random comment on a website from some nobody without any evidence backing up their claim spouting any such nonsense they want, so I simply asked you to be more specific with your criticisms.
For what it's worth, replying to such a request with the kind of hostility you showed doesn't make me any more likely to take you at your word. You don't come off as knowing what you're talking about, so I don't think you're going to convince many people. Have a good day.
Lol, "I don't want to believe you because I don't like you".
How grown up!
Have a nice day you too!
Does control mean he can use the funds for personal things? Genuine question
No, it doesn't. And I'd guess that foundation is far more efficient with it's funds than most, given it doesn't need to advertise or ask for money.
People here are just desperate to find some reason to hate the guy.
And you to simp for his tax avoidance schemes lol.
There are far easier ways to avoid tax than this.
And better people to simp for
I get that you don't like billionaires, and that's understandable, but this is just sad.
I think that you don't understand the value of billions of dollars. He can do whatever he wants "for himself" with just $0.1BN. The rest is just a mental hoarding disease IMO.
They love buying companies, patents and so on, just because. Maybe they miss thst rush when they "earned" their first billion or something and, like a junkie, wants to feel it again.
So you don't think he should give away any money or what?.
Where on earth did you read he's giving away money?
For example, researchers don't want "his money" because there are so many strings attached that whatever you discover, now it's under Bill Gates ownership.
I definitely don't have much love for the guy but my understanding is the money he put up to fight malaria has saved a bunch of lives.
The current situation as I understand it is that he makes more money from his investments than he gives away each year. If he was committed to giving all his money away like he said, wouldn't he... get on that? He's not getting any younger, why isn't he throwing cash at any good cause?
I don't see how that's an answer to ~~Paul McGann's~~ the question though.
Yeah let's hear it. Please elaborate on your accusations and don't be so vague.
At least he helped more people than you. So where does that put YOU?
In camp "BG still has 4240000x times more money than me".
Not to mention he executed the "trolley problem meme" by killing a million to save a million. Now, he did not literally kill people (unlike some other CEOs I've heard about), but he did fuck over a ton of people, all in the name of "Business" (which is PR/propaganda for "greed").
He’s also harmed far more people than me, and the negative positive aspect is still net negative.
Watching people totally fall for Gates’s incredibly shallow face value self image propaganda bullshit is wild to me. FUCK that guy, so hard. One of the biggest reasons we have enshittification today is this one man.
Yeah how dare he run a tax scheme by
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Saving millions of people across all of Africa by providing free healthcare for treatable diseases and potential pandemics?
I've noticed that some people really don't like Africans. I believe there's even a word for such behaviour, don't remember which one right now though...
“Not liking Bill Gates is racist” is such a stupid take that I don’t even know where to begin man.
Well, maybe you need to think twice next time you want to post dumb shit.
You’re an idiot.
What a comeback! Your argument skills are beyond imagination! Well done!
He's given away billions of dollars, and that's face value to you? Besides, he hasn't been in control at Microsoft for decades at this point.
It is face value. How did he gain those billion? "Embrace, extend, and extinguish". Never forget.
We wouldn’t need him to make these donations if he actually paid his fucking taxes is the thing though. And it’s significantly less.
Eh? Even if he paid a 50% tax rate throughout his life, he'd still be a multi billionaire.
And taxes in the US don't typically end up in the developing world.
“In fiscal year 2020 (October 1, 2019 - September 30, 2020), the US government allocated $51.05 billion US dollars in economic and military assistance to foreign countries. Of this total, $39.41 billion dollars was spent on economic assistance, $25.64 billion of which was dispersed by USAID.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_foreign_aid
To say that the US doesn’t do foreign aid is just disingenuous. Also to assume that Gates only pays taxes in the US is also disingenuous.
He paid all the taxes he had to. And they just went to America's favourite pass times: war and proxy genocides.
“He paid all the taxes he had to” is such a ridiculous statement that I won’t be able to bring myself to take you seriously as a person anymore.
Do you know something IRS doesn't?
Yes, that there's no such thing as an ethical billionaire. I wonder what the computing landscape would look like if M$ hadn't spent three decades buying and closing every up and coming competitor they had.
Well, raise that question with IRS then, because right now he's fair and square and you're talking bull shit.
And doing everything in their power to ensure that open source technology wasn’t the standard anymore.
Bill Gates' net worth has grown substantially despite his philanthropy, rising from $126.8 billion in early 2023 to $156 billion in December 2024.
Regarding COVID-19 vaccines, Gates actively opposed patent waivers and influenced Oxford University to privatize its vaccine through AstraZeneca rather than keep it open-source. He pushed for maintaining intellectual property rights through COVAX, despite public funding supporting vaccine development.
Not a good guy by any metric.