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> Being anti-competitive and successful makes someone a bad person. You can judge a person's character by these things. Corrected that for you. In all serious
by tomxor 6y ago
> Being anti-competitive and successful makes someone a bad person. You can judge a person's character by these things.
Corrected that for you.
In all seriousness: I think Bill Gates is probably sincere in his philanthropy, but that the reason is emotional maturity and reflection... that and he's sitting on a fuck ton of money that one man can only squander if not put to better use.
- jvanderbot 6y agoI'm fine if we disagree on this. I go back and forth myself. Ultimately, I believe we're applying too much hindsight to Gates middle years. The anti trust suits were well founded. Someday we'll demonize the Google guys and Zuck and everyone else in adtech. That's good. They played the game, won, we didn't like the outcome, so we change the game. That doesn't make them evil either, it makes them products of a system we asked for and supported and along the way they brought immense value. What became evil in all these cases was not the people, necessarily. What gets me is people who so vehemently hate that they talk about killing the person, not the business.
- aerique 6y agoPeople are already, rightfully, being very critical of Google, Zuckerberg and others. Just like we were back in the day of Microsoft. Are we going to applaud Zuckerberg in 20 years when he's going to use his money for good? He could already be doing good right now, instead of being a net-negative to the world, but he chooses to make billions instead.