Man, not like Jimmy Buffett or something? It had to be the man who used underhanded tactics – notable even compared to other massive corporations – to monopolize home computing and was buddy–buddy with a man he definitely knew trafficked and raped children while he cheated on his wife with multiple women. You clearly have poor taste in people either way, but hopefully in this specific case you just decided “fuck it” and carelessly decided that, out of the ~3000 billionaires, your guy is the one who remarked that a permanent ban of Trump from Twitter “would be a shame” and who used his platform to spread disinformation that climate change doesn’t pose an existential threat to humanity.
Even if the billionaire has to be alive, you’re remarkably stupid by choosing him.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 2 days ago
And supply food and medicine across Africa, Middle East, and Southeast Asia, as well as donating the vast majority of his wealth, yeah it’s going to be Gates. You really cannot compare that to fuckin Buffet.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Damn, I forgot that when I give away a portion of the hundreds of billions of dollars I stole through naked monopolization and exploitation, it makes me a super great guy – and the more money I steal, the betterer. How benevolent of Billy Billionaire; what a noble sacrifice. It’s a good thing Jeffrey was around to give him those antibiotics for his STD; I’ll bet he couldn’t have afforded those healthcare prices after giving the shirt off his back to charity.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 2 days ago
I mean, yeah, if you don’t do that then you’re just Elon Musk or Vladimir Putin which we pretty much all agree is a horrible person.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Kind of weird that you’re acting like stealing hundreds of billions through monopolization and exploitation and then giving some portion of it back is praiseworthy. Charity has moral value when you earned the money you have, not when you’re giving part of your ill-gotten gains back; that’s a partial offset, not a bonus.
Again, you could look at someone like Jimmy Buffett who just, you know, made his fortune being a pretty cool guy whose art people loved enough to pay for it, but you’re still ride-or-die for your favorite child rapist-hobnobbing, cheating, ruthlessly corporatistic and monopolistic Trump-ass-kissing thief of hundreds of billions of dollars under the justification that he gave some of it to charity.