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[–] arymandias@feddit.de 104 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Gates is just as evil as Musk, he is just better at it. Gates played a pivotal role in making sure the vaccine’s stayed under patent. Even when American farma didn’t have the capacity to produce enough and Indian factories had over capacity. The irony is that he did this using his position in the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, that tells you all you need to know about billionaire philanthropy.

[edit] source: https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-the-world-loses-under-bill-gates-vaccine-colonialism/

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 69 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Idk who downvoted you, I guess people who think the problem with Musk is that he's cringy or like a cartoon supervillain. No, all billionaires are evil. If you think Gates is a good guy that's because you don't understand what it takes to be a billionaire, what he does with his "charity", or the history of how he's run his business or destroyed antitrust purely because he was embarrassed at how bad he looked under cross examination. He has the charity specifically to launder his image, and as a result he's found ways to be evil using it as cover that he wouldn't have found back in his embrace, extend and extinguish days.

EDIT: Also behind the bastards did episodes on both these absolute jackoffs:

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-the-ballad-of-bill-83715310/

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-i-do-not-like-63419860/

You don't get featured on that show unless you properly suck.

[–] WorkIsSlow@lemmy.world 37 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No clue why you're being down voted. Youre right.

Gates chose to patent life saving medicine during a global pandemic.

The consequences of that decision are essentially withholding lifesaving medicine because it makes him more money.

[–] schema@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

I haven't heard of that. Which vaccine did he patent?

The only thing I remember was him speaking out for not lifting ongoing patents on the vaccines, and then reversed course as criticism grew bigger.

[–] uzay 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Even before any of the vaccines were finished, there were plans to not grant them any patent protection so they can be produced and distributed as widely as possible. Gates and his foundation lobbied hard against that and instead came up with the bullshit plan to have rich countries buy vaccines for poor countries, which helped no one but the insane profits of the pharma companies. In the case of the vaccine developed with public funding by the Oxford University, Gates actively talked them out of releasing it with an open license, so they sold it to AstraZeneca instead.

https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-the-world-loses-under-bill-gates-vaccine-colonialism/

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[–] gens@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Kalkaline@leminal.space 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago

Yeah, like being on Epstein's island.

[–] KISSmyOS@lemmy.world 52 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)
[–] ZeroCool@feddit.ch 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] KISSmyOS@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I think he's more of a "Kraft Singles" kinda guy.

[–] pufferfischerpulver@feddit.de 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Er sieht auf jeden Fall wie ein "kräftiger" Single aus..

[–] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ik ga er niet om liegen, ik had niet gerekend op een Duitse reactie op de vorige opmerking xD

[–] KISSmyOS@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Ich bin nicht überrascht von einem niederländischen Kommentar in einem Faden über Käse.

[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah but the ones u get from a dollar store

[–] KISSmyOS@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Fun fact: Kraft used to label the product as "Pasteurized Processed Cheese Food" until the FDA slapped them with a warning cause they didn't meat the quality requirements for that label.

[–] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Louis Armstrong didn't goto the moon for this :(

[–] aidan@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

You've just convinced me I have early onset dementia. Knew that wasn't his name but couldn't remember at all what it was before looking it up, and could only thing of Lance Armstrong.

[–] Demuniac@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago

It's funny how these things go sometimes.

At work we had an anti vaccine person who followed her "let them push your body full of these poisons" by going outside to get a smoke.

They usually don't think things through much.

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

second wojack should have been the crying soyjack holding the smirk mask

[–] sensiblepuffin@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago

That would imply an unrealistic level of self awareness, imho

[–] pm_me_your_thoughts@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago

Lmao this post rustled up some hate feathers

[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

I'm loving the free $5000 they put on my microchip every month tho, ngl.

[–] Littleborat@feddit.de 6 points 2 years ago

This is 2018 Elon, he looks much more "off" now.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

I’m reading Stephen King’s The Dark Half right now and I keep imagining George Stark as the blonde guy

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