And why is it just billionaires? What about people worth tens of millions? Shouldn’t we also talk about them? Steve Wozniak is estimated to be worth around 140 million. Is he also evil?

[–] ReCursing@kbin.social 38 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Didn’t Bill Gates revolutionize home computing for the average user?

By literally stealing DR DOS, swapping the drive letters for the hard drive and floppy disk, and rebranding as MS DOS

[–] CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world 40 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Also mustve been nice to have a mom on the board of IBM to help get a massive deal for his startup.....

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/05/how-bill-gates-mother-influenced-the-success-of-microsoft.html

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 14 points 9 months ago

It's always some "started on 3rd base" bullshit with these "self made" billionaires...

Even with "common" people I see this shit and it kills me. I was watching some bullshit "I did x and so can you!" video and this fucker goes on to explain how he had company backing, previous experience, consultants to sit with, and a previous degree...

Yeah guy, I can totally just do that too...

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Didn’t Bill Gates revolutionize home computing for the average user? I’d consider that important work.

No, he built a monopoly on top of a stolen product

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I might add a monopoly so bad and so illegal that even America at its most fascist was like "yeah, too far dumbass"