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It’s sorta bizarre to me.
If he had not given away all the wealth trying to fight diarrheal disease, HIV, TB, and try to source the solutions to the countries themselves… he would have been the richest man in the world even in the 2020s.
Did he fuck some strange? Yeah.
Did he act ruthlessly in business to get ahead? Yeah.
Is he responsible for 80 MILLION lives saved? Yeah.
Guy is doing what whole nations have failed to do and it’s on his back. Somehow that gets so much hate.
Lemmy expects the rich to splat their money out and solve everything, all at once. Told this story a few times:
There's an Indian proverb where a rich man is appalled by the poverty he sees. Gives a rupee to every beggar he sees, until he has no more rupees to give. He finds himself a beggar amongst the very people he tried to help, and didn't accomplish anything at all.
I'm not getting paid by Gates here. I understand where he came from and what he did to get where he's at, watched it in real time during my IT career. But goddam is he doing good works. He's an elderly man trying his best to leave a positive impact on the world. Not gonna act like he's some supervillain.
I am being paid by the foundation, full disclosure, but my agreement or disagreement with the man has nothing to do with working to further clinical trials that save human lives.
Keep fighting the good fight!