3 ms·

Call me cynical but I'm not convinced by Mr Gates or his foundation. Like many of us on here, I too lived through 'the Microsoft years', I watched Microsoft und

Call me cynical but I'm not convinced by Mr Gates or his foundation. Like many of us on here, I too lived through 'the Microsoft years', I watched Microsoft under his leadership effectively dominate their competition using fair means and foul. Case in point, Microsoft are the first to be mentioned in the Examples section of the Wikipedia page on FUD. I've subsequently listened to him in interviews over the last 10 months, and the man cannot stop himself, he sees a large mound of money and his old cutthroat competitive spirit comes surging back. In some interviews it's like he's out of breath just getting out his own way, to rubbish his rivals and convince us to buy 'his vaccine'.

daveed 6y ago
It sounds like you are cynical? He's pledged the vast majority of his money to charity, and he's working on important problems. I haven't listened to him in interviews (is it a tone you're picking up?), but in the things he writes his focus seems very much in the right direction. The investments in vaccines (https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/bill-melinda-gates-foundation-announces-250-million-covid/story?id=74651890 https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/bill-melinda-gates-foundat... ?) seem to be made by his foundation, and I can't tell if it's to the companies themselves or to fund distribution and operational costs (which would be free money for the world). Is there more to this?