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explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Gates was always a loathsome piece of shit. Sorry if you already knew this, but here’s a diagram for the uninitiated:

Gates’ monopoly literally destroyed the yellow area so he could get a bigger blue area, and now he gives back a portion of that blue area. The yellow area is good deals for everyone else that never happened and are now gone. That means that for all the people he’s helped with his charity, he’s hurt everyone even more! We can see the benefit of his donations; we can’t see the better world we would’ve had if he had never been born. We did not need him to develop computers.

Gates deserves the same treatment as all billionaires.

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sunzu2@thebrainbin.org ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I don't get gates simping...he learned in 1990s a oht PR and has been playing it well and normies larp it.

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- Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  He also did the recent donating thing right after people started talking about the list in case you thought he actually wanted to do good besides tax-cuts from that donation.
  
  Also like 90% of his donations are to himself no?
  
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- BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  His wife finally divorced him when she discovered how involved he was with Epstein.
  
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cute_noker@feddit.dk ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Monopolies are very expensive for the society.

I am not very skilled in economics but i feel like software scales really well, so the supply costs should be more flat. And maybe even negative. Meaning that the producer surplus will actually be a lot larger than the heuristic example here. Meaning that Gates has robbed us even more.

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