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Bill Gates, famous climate activist? Mmm.
by podgietaru 5mo ago
Bill Gates, famous climate activist? Mmm.
- dev_l1x_be 5mo agoThe helped easing up on the resources of Earth with his investment in certain pharma companies and now owns a giant amount of the farmland of the US too.
- giancarlostoro 5mo ago> now owns a giant amount of the farmland of the US too. What for though? I always hear this, but what's the point of it?
- cma 5mo agoAny given year congress could pass something letting farmland owned before X date be passed to your children without taxes. I've seen lots of congressmen telling sob stories about a constituent losing the 8-figure family farm due to taxes. Gates owns the farmland personally, not in the foundation. But it could just be diversifying assets. Lots of tech billionaires buy up lots of land.
- mikeyouse 5mo agoHe’s donated something like $100 billion already… there’s no chance he’s buying farmland as an inheritance tax dodge.
- giancarlostoro 5mo agoHe has also said it many, many times, he's not leaving his kids anything.
- cma 5mo agoI was thinking Buffett said that and Gates was still leaving some. I don't know why the farmland then. Maybe to get easy access to veterinarian antibiotics.
- Obscurity4340 5mo agoHes leaving them each 10 million but they're all pretty accomplished i believe already
- mrhottakes 5mo agoHoarding resources
- ZeroGravitas 5mo agoHe spent most of that effort undermining proven solutions and propping up his own investments which have a poor record so this is not out of character.
- shimman 5mo agoLet's also not forget his wife divorcing him over his Epstein partying.
- DANmode 5mo agoI specifically came here hoping to find authoritative discussion on whether or not this could be a net-good in any way, despite him controlling the Foundation.
- DANmode 5mo agoReply.
- TiredOfLife 5mo agoAnd not the long and rampart infidelity
- DANmode 5mo agoWhy would it be one or the other, not emphatically both? Odd to say.
- kennywinker 5mo agoDon’t forget: friend of notorious pedophile jeffery epstein.
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- nozzlegear 5mo ago> Some of us actually live by our values for example not raping trafficked prostitutes and then giving infections to our wives and then lying to them about it And advocating for the streamed, live dissection of the accused, apparently. > This is one of the most insane things I’ve read recently so kudos to being totally depraved
- dang 5mo agoWould you please stop posting flamewar comments and otherwise breaking the site guidelines? You did a ton of it here, and it's not what this site is for. (No, I'm not defending whatever egregious crimes you're commenting about. HN is just not for this type of commenting, and feeding trolls and then responding with further outrage to the troll you just fed is a leading form of what we don't want here.) https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Edit: besides the above, it looks like your account has been using HN primarily for ideological battle. We ban that sort of account - see https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=false&page=0&query=primarily%20test%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme.... I don't want to ban you if you'd please fix this, that would be good.
- Rebelgecko 5mo agoThe problem with AI is that no one has gotten around to asking it how to solve climate change. Once we do, it'll all be ok