• Dagnet@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Neat part is that Bill Gates has been saying he wants taxes to increase for the ultra-rich, he is on board, if only all of them thought that way

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      I wonder how quickly he’d change his mind if we also removed the ability to launder funds donate money for tax breaks from your bank account into your foundation’s bank account.

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          Charities that he controls. He’s shifted power to nonprofit companies, getting additional protection from taxes in order to push his ideas. For example you may be for nuclear power or against it, but he’s able to get one built. Isn’t that the sort of thing the people should decide?

        • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldBanned from community
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          Yep. Gates came from Rich. Legit rich. Hence his education and upbringing and investor support early on. But he coupled it with, well, talent and appetite hence <gesticulates at the MS evolution and hellscape> eh overall… I prefer him to musk I guess?

          It’s a hard ask because SpaceX. Otherwise… fuck that guy.

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          Bill Gates is a higher class of billionaire.

          And I’m sure there were some relatively nice nazis in WWII Germany. Still nazis.