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Melinda Gates Pledges $560 Million For Contraception
theodp writes "Melinda Gates has pledged $560 million as part of a campaign to expand access to contraception for women. From the article: 'The funding commitment was unveiled on Wednesday at the London Summit on Family Planning alongside pledges totaling $4.3 billion from the British government and leaders from African nations wrestling with the health and social problems brought on by high rates of unplanned pregnancy.'"
You're a fucking moron. I'm seriously angry.
Robber barons have long played this scam, and there are still people falling for it? You're probably also a friend of drug trade, forced prostitution and shooting people, because the Mafia is known to support the local churches and in the USA the italian communities, yes?
Gates' riches are ill-gotten. That a large part of them is now given to charity is a PR stunt, but most importantly, it does not offset the damage, because monopoly rent causes more damage than it generates in profit for the monopolist.
The "look, our robber baron has turned philanthrop, all hail him" mentality is the same stupidity that still believes in "trickle down", even though it's been shown not to work for decades.
And poor people actually give more to charity than wealthy people. So it stands to argue that if all those billions hadn't been robbed through monopoly rent from the general public, as much or more of it would have ended up going to charity.
The Gates aren't heroes, you moron. They robbed your farm and slaughtered your pigs and you applaud them for donating your goat to the poor neighbours down the road? They "show the best side of capitalism" in the same sense that the mafia don who donates to his local church shows the best side of organized crime.
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Or maybe they just think it's the right thing to do and you are an asshole. You decide.