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The suggestion is that the incentive was to launder the reality of his life, which appears to be rather worse than you claim. He - they - could have done plent

• krustyburger 5y ago
  >>reality still gets to bat last This seems like a Manichaean way of looking at human nature. In truth, all people are flawed and the same human being always does both good and bad, triumphs but then also fails. There is no game in which “reality” goes to bat against any of us, Bill Gates included. But even to accept the implied metaphor for a moment, I would hesitate to give home field advantage to media takedowns or salacious allegations. The accused should get to bat last, not the prosecution, even if the prosecutors claim to represent “reality.” When it does get to be the ninth inning, given the sheer volume of good Mr. Gates has done the world through his philanthropy, I don’t see this one going to the bottom of the ninth anyway. Looks like a blowout from here.
  • vr46 5y ago
    The volume of “good” effects remain, as does the volume of the bad ones. It’s rightly debatable whether the philanthropy is actually good or not, but anyway. What Gates has been doing - for many years, and is widely reported upon - is pushing the “good” stuff in a PR campaign to make himself look better after the decades of looking like a villain. The “media” isn’t doing any kind of takedown here, it’s mainly reporting on events, and rightly so, because we’re talking about sexual harassment by someone with a lot of power. I don’t entirely know what the last two paragraphs meant but presuming that you mean that time will be the judge.
• Opt_Out_Fed_IRS 5y ago
  >> Even if you do good for self-glorification and to remind everyone how awesome you are Bill Gates behaves like a politician because he was violently attacked by the government first. That's mostly because he didn't engage with politicians or didn't act like one. He seeks to be in the public eye because that's the only way of preventing people gang up against you like it happened in 1999 when the DOJ decided to violently attack Microsoft just because Gates was so extremely rich. His only problem is that he's very socially incompetent and will appear for like 30 minutes on prime time tv and the average person will hear a monotonal voice talking about concepts way above thier heads. He doesn't use typical politician tactics such as US v THEM, doesn't use empathizing phrases. It's only a matter of time until everybody sees the uncannyness and think this guy is an enemy. Which is exaclty the reason why all conspiracy theories are around against him, and seems to me you bought into them as well. Bezos is the Seattle billionaire 2.0 , although his company had a rougher trajectory compared to Microsoft and the initial vision wasn't as ambitious and profitable as Microsoft, then AWS came along and changed the game.. Bezos is much more socially competent than Gates, and if he decides to follow Gates path he won't repeat his same mistakes. He'll use USvTHEM and all the social tactics to make sure that he doesn't become a scrapegoat for all humanity problems like it has happened with Gates