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    NotAnotherLemmyUser@lemmy.world to Uplifting News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago

    Bill Gates vows to give away 99 per cent of his fortune by 2045

    www.watoday.com.au

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    Bill Gates vows to give away 99 per cent of his fortune by 2045

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    NotAnotherLemmyUser@lemmy.world to Uplifting News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago
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      And it’s working. His charity is extremely visible, while the public doesn’t understand how much he took and deadweight lost with his monopoly.

      It’s like a burglar breaking your window, stealing your TV…

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      Years pass…

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      Here have a free TV! I am so generous!

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        But his charity works abroad a lot, so isn’t it more like a burglar stealing your TV, selling it and buying lifesaving drugs for third world children for the money?

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          lobbying the gov for strict IP law, he buys pharma stock before awarding the contracts for buying all the drugs to make money on that as well

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          https://www.realchangenews.org/news/2013/07/03/gates-foundation-s-support-monsanto-reveals-it-has-put-ending-hunger-back-burner

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          Billions in deadweight losses 30 years ago is part of why they aren’t already making their own lifesaving drugs by now, and why the drugs are still so expensive. He stole their TV too.

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