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Gates Foundation has done some pretty good stuff..
No amount of "pretty great stuff" is ever going to overcome the sheer exploitation that Gates himself committed.
There's no such thing as a good billionaire. He's a billionaire with a great PR team. The fact he is trying to assuage his conscience shows that he knows he exploited people to get where he was. And the fact he wants to control his money instead of paying taxes on it shows that he's still an asshole.
Even before Gates, the ~~rich~~ robber barons have known that PR is their only lifeline. That goes back to Carnegie and Rockefeller. Two of the most hated men in the US for much of their lives. I'm reasonably certain that's also what motivated Robin Leach and whoever produced Lifestyles of the rich and famous.
Nah fuck em