I’m not going to try to defend his more heinous actions, neither the ones early in his career nor the ones that came later in life, but it did truly feel like their foundation and what they did with it was more of a “we have the time and the money so why not do something positive and get good PR at the same time?” kind of thing.
He’s certainly saved more lives than Musk, Thiel, Altman et al. have, put together. By far.
I still find it funny that he actually thought he could get drumpf to do something altruistic, though. That shit was both funny and sad at the same time.
His foundation pushed back against covid vaccines being open so poorer countries could afford them because he insists that someone needs to profit from shit his foundation does. It was like a continuation of his opposition to open source software (that he leaned on to develop the things that made Microsoft and then immediately hated because they were still free for others when he wanted to pull the ladder up). His foundation also tends to dominate charities it deals with because the surge of money makes them expand and then they can’t afford to lose it.
A mixed bag is still better than the other sacks of shit, but I’m not going to waste any more time trying to defend him than this either. He’s still a piece of shit.
I’m not going to try to defend his more heinous actions, neither the ones early in his career nor the ones that came later in life, but it did truly feel like their foundation and what they did with it was more of a “we have the time and the money so why not do something positive and get good PR at the same time?” kind of thing.
He’s certainly saved more lives than Musk, Thiel, Altman et al. have, put together. By far.
I still find it funny that he actually thought he could get drumpf to do something altruistic, though. That shit was both funny and sad at the same time.
His foundation pushed back against covid vaccines being open so poorer countries could afford them because he insists that someone needs to profit from shit his foundation does. It was like a continuation of his opposition to open source software (that he leaned on to develop the things that made Microsoft and then immediately hated because they were still free for others when he wanted to pull the ladder up). His foundation also tends to dominate charities it deals with because the surge of money makes them expand and then they can’t afford to lose it.
Mixed bag.
A mixed bag is still better than the other sacks of shit, but I’m not going to waste any more time trying to defend him than this either. He’s still a piece of shit.