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Bill Gates has also literally saved more lives and helped more impoverished people than you and the the closest 500 people you know. Yes, no one, no matter what they invent, create, or build, should be worth over a billion dollars, but unlike Amazon employees or wal mart, no one working at Microsoft ever needed food stamps and he stopped amassing wealth a long time ago, and even convinced some of his retarded wealthy friends to do the same.
If you've never dug deeply into the ramifications of the Gates' charity work, you might be surprised how much they use charity and their organizations to exert influence and control over the regions they help. It isn't purely from the goodness of their hearts: billionaire philanthropy is both a PR tactic for washing over their bad behaviors and a way of creating a captive, dependent population that you can control.
That is what Bill Gates’ PR machine wants you to believe.
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They’re shit “facts” whose purpose is to hide how oligarchies work.
Imagine how many lives could have been saved with the appropriate allocation of those resources Gates never paid in taxes. We shouldn't allow billionaires to take all that wealth and decide unilaterally who gets to be helped and who doesn't.
Didn't he straight up prevent vaccine creation by torpedoing the public domaining of covid vaccines, killing millions?