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Bill Gates take on Climate change
(fortune.com)
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this post was submitted on 04 Oct 2023
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They should be taxed on 100% of that surplus money and we should use it to fund the programs we collectively agree to as a society.
The benevolence of billionaires isn't how we should be making these decisions. Its whitewashing the fact that they have dismantled our societies ability to govern itself through taxation and public spending.
Not to mention Bill Gates "philanthropy" has also had disastrous consequences.
So no. Fuck Bill Gates. He doesn't get a pass because his marketing team is more effective at whitewashing his wage theft than Elon Musk.
Dog bill gates forced the COVID vaccine to be patented so he could profit off of it.