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Bill gates from behind with the ~~steel chair~~ polio vaccination program.
Kicking malaria's butt too right. Sure you don't get to be a billionaire without exploitation. But I doubt I'd be smart enough to organise philanthropy as well as they seem to be. So props to them for caring?
As long as no one idolizes him, I’d say compliments are fine. I’ll never trust a billionaire, but I still appreciate when they do right. Social media causing hero worship to all but die among the reasonable has been its only positive.
That's an interesting line to draw from social media. Depends who you view as the reasonable I guess but I'm not sure I follow. Got any material that fleshes it out?
It’s just a consequence of the disillusionment that social media can provide. The mask dropping to reveal a full confederate uniform and a barely obscured bruised child is a common reason to avoid personally handling your twitter as a celebrity and yet it continues to happen. Kids a few decades ago would have had no ability to learn that their heroes were colossal douches, now they say so themselves. Loudly. It comes in waves, and most recently the muskitos. And thus,
Bill Gates is still a bastard. Here's an episode of Tech Won't Save Us that features an interview with the author of "The Bill Gates Problem".
https://audio.buzzsprout.com/1si7b1vx1g5ei3rwrd8kqmhrw0f2?response-content-disposition=inline&
still a billionare. fight me