• Mikufan@ani.social
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    8 months ago

    They are just humans like everyone else. Gates got rich without much abuse or problematic things, yeah his mom helped but when you have connections, you use them.

    He definitely did more good than bad. And this whole shit about saying everyone from XY group is evil is just idiotic.

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      8 months ago

      he abused market position and squashed competitors for pretty much his entire time at the helm of microsoft.

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        8 months ago

        So every other company in that position did or would do. Shure its not ok, but the point still stands, more good than bad.

        Btw, nowadays Microsoft contributes to FOSS projects.

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      8 months ago

      High probability OP would take a billion dollars, and still think themselves good. Lower than 50% that they would give it all away.

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        8 months ago

        Tbh, most humans on this planet would push a button saying “kill 10k random people and get 10 billion in gold” and they wouldn’t even feel remorse. Gates definitely didn’t kill 10k people.

        Lower than 50%? Id say lower than 0,1% no sane individual would do that, you would have to be pretty stupid.

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          8 months ago

          I mean, Gates is working on it. and Chuck Feeney did it in one shot. It would normally be significantly lower than 50%, but I gave OP the benefit of the doubt given their stated opinion of the wealthy.