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Well, I wasn't really responding to the Bill Gates part in particular. Gates was a bit of a megalomaniac with MS. But he's doing awesome stuff with the money no
by quaristice 10y ago
Well, I wasn't really responding to the Bill Gates part in particular. Gates was a bit of a megalomaniac with MS. But he's doing awesome stuff with the money now. As person I'm not aware of him ever being a jerk.
- michaelmrose 10y agoSo if you gain lots of money via semi nefarious means what fraction do you have to dedicate to good works before the earlier wrong is cancelled? I know that he didn't gas 6 million people but letting people buy their way out of moral debt with a fraction of the money they gained still seems horribly repugnant.
- anon4 10y agoHey, Hitler might have been responsible for killing a lot of people, including ones of Jewish faith, but he also killed Hitler. I think that makes him strictly a better person than Bill Gates. How many of us can say that we ended a world war?
- quaristice 10y agoFirst, what moral debt? Second, I imagine the sum total of his humanitarian efforts are greater than the total charity if all of those dollars remained in the pockets of each person who bought windows 95 et al. So repugnant seems like a real stretch.