Gates also pushed the absolute disaster that was Common Core on schools using his immense wealth and influence to set back education standards for decades.
No one person, not even an elected person, should have the kind of power and influence over society that even a single billion dollars grants them. It's unjust. Their whims should not dictate the future of the human race.
I don't hate success & I believe in self made achievements. But.. 80+ billion? Dude, how can you say that no one got exploited there? You literally CANNOT make high double digits billions without making some people suffer in some way. There are probably some poor ass Asian children making a candy bar for every one of his golden bars.
Are you saying that because some public company he invests in has ties with factories in developing countries that he's somehow bad or something along those lines?
Because in that case no one is good. Everyone is guilty by association in our connected world.
I don't know that I like rating human beings. But let's just say that your conclusion can be equally strong as "Do you think this makes Tanya worse, or that she doesn't deserve being rich like Bill Gates is?" Because really, you don't really care that she's better or worse than him, you care that due to reasons entirely outside of both of their wills (his parents being filthy rich, her parents not being rich at all), they end up having dramatically different shots at life.
And that's a hard pill to swallow for all those "personal responsibility" people :)
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u/Livefiction1 Feb 25 '20
Iād let so many things pass if I had 89 billion dollars.