Nothing. We’re talking at cross purposes a bit maybe. Gates isn’t the problem. That he was able to amass that level of wealth in the first place is.
And lol at “driven by class warfare”. His class has been waging war on the likes of you and me our entire lives (you could argue all of history). Having a 2% wealth tax and returning to a more progressive income tax is hardly sharpening the guillotines.
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Thank you for taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy.
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Gates should give 99% of his shares in MS to the employees and let them decide what to do with the money. 99% of the rest of the money he should give away now, not when he dies. He should move into a nice 2000sf house, use a reasonable amount of resources, give his giant house up. Imagine his carbon footprint.
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I understand your impulse here given your political leanings but do you really think making a bunch of already rich coders and tech people richer is morally better than what he is doing right now in trying to help the poorest fraction of humanity?
The Bill Gates derail in this thread is total AIDS and needs to be moved out of it.
https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/1192824086713503745
you still haven’t figured out why he’d do such a thing huh. 1) he’s a dictator and 2) he’s a troll
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Gates not only has too much money, he has too much power. The coders, who generated the wealth, can decide what to do with it.
Maybe this thread needs a mosquito net.
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It’s not AIDS, but agree that it should be moved at this point.
I will walk across a glass-covered hallway barefoot while the walls around me are ablaze and crumbling to vote against this piece of shit.
See, if Trump had kept it to illegal and unconstitutional stuff like this, he wouldn’t be facing an impeachment inquiry right now.
Senate Republicans might surprise you with their loyalty to Pence.
I’m starting to think his people want him to be booed repeatedly for some reason. They’re blatantly putting him in position for it to happen.
There it is.
Clovis at some point you need to ask yourself why am I constantly defending billionaires on an internet forum?
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The government, we the people, should simply refuse to protect more than some amount (like $10M?) of anyone’s wealth. After that people should be free to squat on everything.
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Okay all the whites on this side, all the blacks on that side…
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Yeah he got a sudden case of the ‘oh shit I really am gonna go to jails’
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I’m defending logic. Not billionaires. Also I’m defending one billionaire, not billionaires.
Move this discussion to my guillotine thread maybe
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Oh wow look Clovis, who knew billionaire philantropists pet projects could have unintended consequences just like governments?
Got me, what with all my posts arguing not one dollar Gates ever spent was ill-conceived.
I’m not sure they will have a leg to stand on once everything comes out, but who cares? They don’t have a leg to stand on now wrt Trump and nothing matters.
Also Pence is the Kochs’ special little boy and he was no doubt added to Trump’s ticket to help open their purses.
Microsoft sucks. They started out by stealing software, very similar to Facebook. Some of you all may be too young to remember the years of the blue screen of death. Facebook sucks. Twitter sucks. Wal-Mart sucks. Amazon sucks. Koch industries sucks. Fox sucks. Amway sucks. Oracle sucks.
Are there any billionaires who have gotten rich by making things that don’t suck?
Google had a nice run I guess.
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