Gates doesn't want to give up his money because he can actually help more people with it than any government plan.

The government will squander the money like they always do, with absolutely no accountability.

Wealth taxes do nothing but push the wealthy out and leave the middle class to foot the bill.

In cooperation with Intellectual Ventures, apparently Gates' patents on energy storage are supposed to be so broad they're like patenting nature itself.

There's even one against health care workers and portable power.

Effectively these make it more costly or impossible for those having underdeveloped energy infrastructure to benefit from advances made which would be helpful otherwise, regardless of who makes the advances.

How can you take this seriously when the person who has written this article already moves gates into enemy territory because he didn't say who he would vote for.

Absolute lunacy.

This article is pretty reductive, claiming that regardless of anything else Bill Gates might believe or accomplish, if he doesn't support wealth taxes, he's on the "other" side (scare quotes, not quote quotes).

Here's a more thoughtful article on philanthropist billionaires: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/07/29/against-against-billio....