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Bill Gates is a horrible person. (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by Maerman@lemmy.world to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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So I just read Bill Gates' 1976 Open Letter To Hobbyists, in which he whines about not making more money from his software. You know, instead of being proud of making software that people wanted to use. And then the bastard went on and made proprietary licences for software the industry standard, holding back innovation and freedom for decades. What a douche canoe.

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[-] ButtKiss@lemmy.dbzer0.com 107 points 2 days ago

Well yes.

Being a Billionaire should be criminalized

[-] shiftymccool@piefed.ca 40 points 2 days ago

I kinda compare it to semi truck weigh stations. I found out some time ago that if the math works out that a truck got from one weigh station to another too fast the driver can get a speeding ticket since its assumed they broke the law getting there. Apply that to money. If a person accumulates too much money, it should just be assumed that person broke laws getting it and they should be severly fined (like, most of it).

[-] bitcrafter@programming.dev 13 points 1 day ago

They're not assuming anything, they are doing calculus.

[-] shiftymccool@piefed.ca 7 points 1 day ago

For the record, i literally said "if the math works out" 😁

[-] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago

i tried reading that article. I am waaaaaaaaay too dumb to understand it

[-] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 20 hours ago

Lol, wikipedia in regards to math is always fucky. I love statistics and calculus, and I still struggle through their pages.

[-] bitcrafter@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago

It does not have to be your cup of tea, but for the record, reading math does not require being smart so much as being patient.

[-] monotremata@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm a little disappointed this wasn't a link to the film strip we saw in high school. The cop drawling "Now this here is Rolle's theorem..." is classic.

Edit: https://vimeo.com/101691769

[-] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 20 hours ago

Aw, that makes me sad that I never got that. We just had the example in our textbook be a cop at a tollway.

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 day ago

It should be classified as a sign of mental illness. If I had half of a billion dollars I wouldn't work another day in my life and the general public would never hear from me. These fuckers have more money than they could ever spend and still desperately want more.

[-] Tinidril@midwest.social 5 points 1 day ago

It should be classified as a sign of mental illness.

It is. They call it hoarding disorder.

[-] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago

i don't see the point. It really is fucking pointless. They will NEVER spend billions in their entire fucking life, and yet they want more. More money. More money. So much more money. We need to take after star trek and abolish money

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 2 points 20 hours ago

But then how would they track their high score?

[-] olafurp@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago

I don't mind billionaires as long as everything is fairly taxed.

[-] Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 23 hours ago

If taxes were fair there would be no billionaires.

[-] reddit_sux@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

You can be a billionaire if you are willing to pay a million per month as taxes.

[-] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 day ago

That's a rate of only 1.2% per year, was that your intention ?

[-] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

oh man. Remember when the ultrawealthy were getting taxed like 80%? Those were the days

[-] PokerChips@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

There were a lot of tax write offs through incentives which was a good thing because it actually encouraged rich people and businesses to be proactively productive towards the public good.

So done right, they paid nowhere near the 80%. Of course there was abuse and loopholes.

And off topic and contrary to popular thought, Jimmy Carter was the one who started deregulation in this area. He was trying to get the economy moving again and was taking a "reasonable" approach. Reagan took Carter's idea and went on a heist with it to enrich buddies and doners

[-] reddit_sux@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

No, if he is earning a billion a year that's too low. But most billionaire have familial wealth and might be earning a few millions in a month. I don't mind taking a million or two off of it even if he is not earning anything.