Some years back, I talked with someone who had research funding from the Gates Foundation. The were almost apologetic about it. It seems they felt compromised

Some years back, I talked with someone who had research funding from the Gates Foundation. The were almost apologetic about it. It seems they felt compromised; that they were serving as cover and cog for a patent generation scheme. So if the video's argument vis Google doesn't resonate, perhaps that's a simpler example. It's a reoccurring critique of GF in global public health, especially when it's working with Intellectual Ventures, that... it has a strong preference for approaches that generate patents, and profit large incumbents, over approaches without those properties. In contrasting Tesla vs old-auto engineering culture, someone described an old-auto engineering design career/car decision matrix. If something is good for both career and car, great, do it. If bad and good, drop it. If good and bad, pursue it anyway. So regards engineering social change, it would seem unsurprising to find a variety of engineering cultures present, perhaps with a variety of properties.