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> You're wrong. No actually i'm right. > and I can't think of how that could be considered "patronizing". the part where bill gates accumulates wealth throug
by exit 16y ago
> You're wrong.
No actually i'm right.
> and I can't think of how that could be considered "patronizing".
the part where bill gates accumulates wealth through computer technology, and where computer technology depends on minerals mined under slave labor conditions, or devices put together in sweatshops, and then he gets lauded for "donating" what he dispossessed those people of.
that would be one of many patronizing threads to this story, for example.
> The most productive people in society should be rewarded accordingly,
the non-linear returns of capitalist accumulation do not reward people "accordingly".