Cool uncle mask falling off. Familiar face emerges.
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Ask me how I know you only read the headline.
more money should go toward “improving lives” and curbing disease and poverty.
“Climate is super important but has to be considered in terms of overall human welfare,”
The headline is deliberately misleading and honestly should be corrected or removed.
Please put in slightly more effort next time, thanks.
Kinda shocked that after all the recent info coming out he thinks that it's not going to be a "climate disaster" lmao. Headline is deliberately misleading but that doesn't make bill less of an idiot.
The problem with “effective altruism” ideology, it’s dependent on the whims of the wealthy.
By what logic? Can't normal people donate money to effective causes?
Sure, but effective altruism is a specific ideology. Not just donating to causes.
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His philanthropy was always a response to how much people hated him because of Microsoft. He is so thin-skinned and can’t stand even legitimate grievances against him.
I'll take a thin skinned billionaire that donates some of those billions to feel warm and fuzzy over a thick skinned one that laughs from a balcony as people lose their homes.
I'll take neither. Billionaires can all go under the guillotine.
Well sure, in optimism land, why not go for them all. In the real world, that wouldn't be possible given the amount of insulation they have and protection they can afford.
My meaning here is that if the choice were presented between guillotining one of them that donates money occasionally, and another that doesn't so much as pretend to give a damn, I'm going to point at the latter.
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I've checked the numbers once. Gates donated to his foundation $20B and today the foundation has over $70B. Bill, through his foundation, controls 3x more money they he donated. He's using foundation's grants to influence policy and research at a global scale. This is not about helping anyone, it's about excreting power over governments while improving his public image.
What he should be doing instead? Paying taxes.
Forgive me but while I could agree the primary purpose for his actions may not be philanthropic intent, it certainly has some positive butterfly effects - like the research you mention. Maybe it's not about helping anyone, but that's not to say that it doesn't help anyone.
Regardless this isn't the place to get into the minutiae. My point was that if we put the ten digit club in a cage and told them only one is allowed back out, I'd prefer Gates find victory than someone like Musk.
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Bill Gates said too many resources are going toward climate change instead of issues like welfare and poverty…
In the letter, Gates called out the “doomsday view” of climate change and said leaders need to make a “strategic pivot” to focus on issues that have the “greatest impact on human welfare.”
“It’s the best way to ensure that everyone gets a chance to live a healthy and productive life no matter where they’re born, and no matter what kind of climate they’re born into,” he wrote.
The “generative AI” part of the headline is not particularly relevant to the article, but is a great test to see who reads the article before rushing to comment.
Bill Gates knows better than most that there's enough money in the world to try and tackle both climate change and poverty, and still leave him a billionaire.
I think the wording that really bugs me in his quote is "healthy and productive life". If all the alarms are true we're already fucked on climate, so he's concerned about maintaining a labor force.
It's not money. It's timing. You really want UBI before automation. There's never been a push for AI and robots like this before.
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A cynical view would be that he realizes that we as a species are doomed, and wants everyone to at least be comfortable as the world becomes unlivable for us.
Actual headline:
Bill Gates softens ‘Climate Disaster’ approach, says strategy needs to shift: Interview
Bill Gates was recently at the meeting where all the US tech oligarchs kissed Trump's ring. The article changes nothing about how Bill Gates is very much part of the problem, and this "change" is exclusively based on his oligarch reasons.
Although Gates said investment to battle climate change must continue, he argued that US President Donald Trump's cuts to USAID threaten a more urgent problem
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/577152/bill-gates-makes-a-stunning-claim-about-climate-change
He's not wrong. Trump's cuts to USAID will cause the death of millions in quite a short time.
and yet climate change is still an even more long-term important problem
Someone got their name purged from the Epstein papers, it seems.
Bill Gates charitable donations do real good but they are paltry sums compared to what taxing him would do. Its best to view billionaire donations as at best a guilty conscience and at worst insincere marketing.
This isn't an 'either or' question and framing it that way is deliberate. As though his money alone couldn't fix both issues for years.
Tax the rich and make them taste reality again. They need to be taxed, its good for them. Ease their guilty consciences of all this sinful monetary excess.
His "donations" are to his own charity, that he then gets to use to reduce his tax burden. Billionaire philanthropy is another avenue of profit for them, nothing else.
But... but, he's one of the "good billionaires", Reddit told me so. He'S A phiLAnthroPISt!
To those friends and people that would always say that to me, I always said he just has a good PR team. His malaria work is genuinely good, but still not even a drop in the ocean of the good he could actually do if he contributed his fair share.
Billionaire's Disease is indiscriminate. We must all work to end its plague upon society.
Don't worry, climate scientists who have investigated this issue for decades now, bill Gates says it'll be fine
I believe he was anti green energy before, then made a pivot, and I guess he's back.
*Now that I read it
In a letter published Tuesday ahead of next week’s COP30 U.N. climate summit, Gates argued that too many resources are focused on emissions and the environment, and that more money should go toward “improving lives” and curbing disease and poverty.
“Climate is super important but has to be considered in terms of overall human welfare,” Gates told CNBC’
What he said isn't exactly wrong in and of itself. Only in the context of when and why he said it. Of course we have to keep human welfare in mind, but the climate crisis has reached a point where all human welfare in the not so distant future depends on how heavily we address environmental issues right now. And he's only saying that to save face.
What do the other "subscription rich" think?
First, no editorialized headlines. Second, I have no opinion on the guy but he's sounding more just wrong than evil here.
He was at the techbro oligarch meeting with Trump, kissing his ring recently. The guy is definitely evil.
boomers gon boom, fucking dickhead
Too much money makes you abhorrent and eventually evil. Notice how not ONE of the nearly 1000 billionaires that reside in the USA have stepped up to offer assistance to help feed the people who will be starving next month. I would be sick with myself if I had that wealth and did nothing. These people have forgotten where they came from. Is it time, yet, to remind them?
I think too many resources are spent on Bill Gates
"If i say what these filthy peasants want, will they forget i was on Epstein list ?"
- Billy Gator, probably
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Dude wants AI for more money. He doesn’t give a fuck.
My buddy has been getting tons of testing and high skill engineering equipment from facilities closed down after Bill Gates pulled funding. I guess he’s pivoting research because of Trump. My buddy has warehouse worth the growing equipment now from one of his labs plus tons of other stuff.
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