Gates at least does something. Yea all rich people charities are tax evasion schemes, but at least he does something. Musk kills turtles and strokes his rocket to it.

[–] uzay@infosec.pub 25 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes, he's working hard on prioritzing profits over people even harder in the medical industry.

[–] tahiti_gradur@mastodon.social 6 points 11 months ago

@uzay
And messing with the food system in Africa as well...
https://youtu.be/3wQx-BjmfJk https://www.thenation.com/article/world/new-colonialist-food-economy/
@gens

[–] Kalkaline@leminal.space 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Charity just means your special interest gets what would otherwise be tax dollars. There's nothing democratic about charity. It's just churched up oligarchy.

[–] gens@programming.dev 9 points 11 months ago

It's worse then that for the very rich. Their "charities" are made up of their friends and family, and the money eventually circles back to them. It's literally tax evasion.

[–] SchizoDenji@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months ago

Yeah, like being on Epstein's island.

[–] netchami@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The only thing Gates does is use his foundation to avoid taxes. He's not any better than other billionaires. The entirety of billionaire philanthropy is a massive lie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH4uh8cHuto

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[–] gens@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

No, he does do stuff. I already said about their charities, and you tell me of like i know nothing. I also know about his boat and planes.

I said that he, unlike all the other rich cunts, does something. Do you see the nuance in my words ? Do i need to both italize and bold it for you ?

[–] DeceasedPassenger@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

So Mr gates is special because... he's your special favorite guy? Because last time I checked almost all billionaires give to charities and foundations. Something is not anything just because you declare it, no matter how hard you emphasize it. There is absolutely nothing unique or special about his giving versus anyone else's. You're really acting like he's the only rich pedo to ever start a 501c3. Gates shills sure out hard today.

[–] gens@programming.dev -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Again, all rich ppl charities are money laundering. It has to do with how economics (epecially usa taxes) work. And those charities are useless, even more then carbon offsets.

I never said Gates is the greatest angle to ever grace us, all i said is that he is not a completely heartless cunt of a person like Jeff or Elon.

And it's not about giving charities, it's about the initiatives.

Also go fuck yourself. I can talk shit about Gates for hours. I'm just not an extremist to see only black or white. Cunt.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com -3 points 11 months ago

Here, take some boot juice.

[–] netchami@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Inside any important philanthropy meeting, you witness heads of state meeting with investment managers and corporate leaders. All are searching for answers with their right hand to problems that others in the room have created with their left.

― Peter Buffett, the son of Warren Buffett

[–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works -5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'm sorry but Musk's rockets are probably the most environmentally friendly. There was the dust cloud in orbital flight test 1 but it's definitely not as bad as some other launches from other organisations. Rockets fail and that's not a problem if you fail intentionally.