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Bill Gates, Time Magazine "Person of the Year"
klubar writes "Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda, were named Time Magazine "Persons of the Year". He was joined in this honor with Irish rocker Bono-all being named for being "Good Samaritans" who made a difference."
Bill Gates is not a philanthropist at all. In fact, he is making the problems of the world that he pretends to be helping to solve much, much, much worse.
If I went into a poor neighborhood and built five houses for five families, and then bulldozed the rest of the neighborhood and sent hundreds of other families out freezing and starving into the streets, well, give a good PR team like Gates has and I guess the newspapers would call me a philanthropist, too.
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... is his crappy operating system
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Say whatever you like about Microsoft (I can't say I'm a big fan of them!), but you can't realy fault Bill Gates as a man.
I mean, how many billions of dollars have you given to charities and foundations?
Yeah... thought so.
There is nothing more practical than a good abstract theory.
Yeah, it' so nice of him to share a tiny fraction of the vast wealth he gained by using proven illegal practices to crush Microsofts competitors.
Oh no... it's the future.
Sorry, but the obscenely rich directing their "tax" dollars is not an act of altruism.
Well, sort of. Recall that Time has named Hitlter, Khomeni, Stalin, bin Laden and Nixon as person of the year.
I must be fuzzy on the "Good Samaritan" parable. Did it involve the Good Samaritan cheating and stealing their way to being the wealthiest person in the world, and then giving that unethically and illegally gained money away, non-anonymously, to pump his ego and buy good will?
"A man lay robbed and dying on the side of the road. Many men walked buy but did nothing. Then along came the Good Samaritan. He was the guy that robbed the dying guy. He mercifully killed the dying man by cutting off his air supply. Then the Good Samaritan went back to his village and built a huge house, and lived like a God on earth, not humbly at all. Later, the Good Samaritan donated a portion of his stolen wealth in front of all the people of his village, so that he would look like a great guy, and they would forget his ego, crimes, and greed. Remember, my children, that is why he is the Good Samaritan -- because he is good at fooling that masses."
So Melinda Gates and Bono are also in good company with Hitler, Stalin and Bush?
As well as JFK, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Ted Turner, Pope John II?
Didn't think so. So the what fuck is the point of this idiotic remark? Moderators, get a clue please. There is no insight here. It's plain stupidity.
Bill Gates makes more money in an hour than some of us make in a year. If I made as much money as him, I'd gladly donate 70-90% - you simply don't need that much money.
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Who founded Microsoft? Who is responsible for its business practices? Who is has made entire economies dependant on inferior, expensive Microsoft software?
Bill's gains are ill-gotten.
Like all the best dictators, Bill's got people looking up to him and eating right out of his hand.
Usually the ignorant.
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