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Did you even read the article because it literally listed point by point. All the shady shit the Gates and Melinda Foundation do. I guess you think its ok for f

by DonnyV 5y ago

Did you even read the article because it literally listed point by point. All the shady shit the Gates and Melinda Foundation do. I guess you think its ok for for a giant foundation to pay off journalists and control pharmaceutical patents? Or fund private businesses breaking into foreign countries?

aardvarkr 5y ago
It's literally nothing more than a hit piece against one of the most impactful philanthropists that our generation has ever seen. You bring up "paying off journalists" but the article doesn't even mention that. Instead, he donates money to newspapers so they can cover underappreciated topics like global povert. Ohhh noooo Bill Gates donates money to the Guardian so they can have a "Global Development" website, those MONSTERS!!![0] Here's their DEPLORABLE description: "This website is funded by support provided, in part, by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The journalism and other content is editorially independent and its purpose is to focus on global development...The Guardian’s award-winning global development site was launched in 2010 to provide special focus on the millennium development goals — the eight targets set in 2000 by the United Nations Millennium Declaration with the aim of improving the lives of the world’s poorest people by 2015. The site has gone on to produce news, features, debate, multi-media and photography from journalists, experts and people around the world."[1] You bring up that the foundation "controls pharmaceutical patents" but tbh it's an specious (and unsourced) claim from KHN that reeks of conspiracy theory vibes. If that's what you call a rock solid source then I have bridge to sell you. That last point is fascinating because there you're twisting something great -- working to bring mobile banking to the impoverished rural communities of Tanzania -- into something that's somehow awful. Mobile banking is such an incredibly impactful way to reduce poverty[2] yet he's the DEVIL for partnering with a for-profit company? Grow up and get a life. [0] https://www.theguardian.com/global-development https://www.theguardian.com/global-development [1] https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2010/sep/14/about-this-site https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2010/sep/14/a... [2] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/354/6317/1288 https://science.sciencemag.org/content/354/6317/1288

by DonnyV 5y ago

aardvarkr 5y ago

It's literally nothing more than a hit piece against one of the most impactful philanthropists that our generation has ever seen. You bring up "paying off journalists" but the article doesn't even mention that. Instead, he donates money to newspapers so they can cover underappreciated topics like global povert. Ohhh noooo Bill Gates donates money to the Guardian so they can have a "Global Development" website, those MONSTERS!!![0] Here's their DEPLORABLE description: "This website is funded by support provided, in part, by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The journalism and other content is editorially independent and its purpose is to focus on global development...The Guardian’s award-winning global development site was launched in 2010 to provide special focus on the millennium development goals — the eight targets set in 2000 by the United Nations Millennium Declaration with the aim of improving the lives of the world’s poorest people by 2015. The site has gone on to produce news, features, debate, multi-media and photography from journalists, experts and people around the world."[1] You bring up that the foundation "controls pharmaceutical patents" but tbh it's an specious (and unsourced) claim from KHN that reeks of conspiracy theory vibes. If that's what you call a rock solid source then I have bridge to sell you. That last point is fascinating because there you're twisting something great -- working to bring mobile banking to the impoverished rural communities of Tanzania -- into something that's somehow awful. Mobile banking is such an incredibly impactful way to reduce poverty[2] yet he's the DEVIL for partnering with a for-profit company? Grow up and get a life. [0] https://www.theguardian.com/global-development https://www.theguardian.com/global-development [1] https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2010/sep/14/about-this-site https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2010/sep/14/a... [2] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/354/6317/1288 https://science.sciencemag.org/content/354/6317/1288