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There are no good billionaires, all of them are scum. Yes, Bill Gates is included, regardless of all the donating he does. Until the day someone becomes a billionaire off of an idea to truly better humanity, like a cure for cancer, aids, etc. Actually useful technology, like a way to interface a camera with the brain to restore sight, or something like that. There will never be a good billionaire.
If they were good then they would give it away and not become a billionaire
Torvalds is probably the closest example we have to revolutionary betterment today and he’s not a billionaire
Yeah, Torvalds is a great guy, i love that he hasn't become complacent and enshitified Linux
I've seen optimistic estimates that Linus makes ~$10 million per year from Red Hat stock. Even if that were true, it would take 100 years for him to be a billionaire. Can we focus on the actual billionaires before coming for him?
No one was coming for him
I was using him as an example of a good person
Sorry, misread that!
I agree, there are no good billionaires. The moment they donate all their billions they are good but they are no billionaires anymore. "good" and "billionaire" are mutually exclusive.
Even then they would only become rich from the idea by skimming wages off of the people actually implementing and distributing it.
Nevermind all of the support that goes into a discovery like that. Like look at all the work that went into recent miracle discovery the mRNA vaccine.
That is a valid argument
Bill Gates has never been a “good” billionaire. Think of all the shady shit Microsoft did under his tenure to make his billions. Yeah, his foundation does good - but that’s all press image polishing to make you forget what he did before.
I know, that is why I called him out specifically