Yup
Is this one of those conspiracy theories I’ve been hearing about?
Bill Gates’ foundation has been giving away money for decades. If you think he’s planning to make a bunch of money off “forced vaccination”, you’re stuck in the past — Gates doesn’t care about making more money, he cares about getting the respect of his peer group & broader society. He’s not going to earn money off this, he’s going to earn respect.
That has nothing to do with “forced” vaccination, and everything to do with (the perception of) saving lives otherwise lost to this virus. If he funds a real vaccine, whether forced or not, he’ll accomplish his goal.
Please, leave the shortsighted “greed” conspiracy theories off this site.
How much would he need from this supposed plan to even breakeven? Thirty billion?
It's really simple, less death from preventable diseases reduces poverty, and increasing the sustainable prices for Microsoft products and services. More revenue for Microsoft lifts stock price and billg's net worth.
Of course, the math doesn't add up if billg has to spend all his money to do it, and not just Microsoft reaps the benefits, which is why he's trying to get lots of other wealthy people to spend their money similarly --- then everyone who benefits can share the cost.
(Mostly toungue in cheek)
Smart people have been concerned about a viral pandemic of this sort for centuries, and yet we were caught unprepared. That’s the real tragedy.
Whatever the case, you have to admit that you are taking for granted that his intentions are benign. There's no rule that billionaires have to be benevolent. There's a lot of soft power associated with a mandatory vaccination program but aside from that, the chipping that he is behind has an enormous (and dangerous) surveillance potential.
The man has the clout and resources to potentially install a physical, nonremovable beacon into people's bodies, and has spoken openly and repeatedly about doing so. How do you know he won't get drunk with that kind of power? A single man could, say, sway elections if he had access to just the location data for 300MM Americans. And there's really no way we'd know if the biometric/location data were being siphoned for "non government" use...
Huh? I made no such assumption. I simply speculated that he was doing this for one form of currency, and not another. He may well want to track everybody, I have no idea.
But the whole premise is absurd. Bill Gates doesn’t need to inject tracking microchips into everyone through a forced vaccination program to “sway elections” — that’s Hollywood supervillain-level garbage: a massively intricate complex plan that achieves so little. It’s like inventing a time machine just to use it to prove to your friend that he really did say that thing he denies he said in 1972.
Bill Gates doesn’t need a crazy plan to sway elections — he can just buy tons of ads! He can fund others’ campaigns!
I don’t know Gates’ intentions — but I’m pretty sure he’s not stupid.
Buying tons of ads seemed to work pretty well for Bloomberg.
That's not what I'm talking about. You're conflating vaccination with the id2020 program. Different conspiracies. I'm just saying, if you implant an RFID digital certificate, you're effectively a walking uuid beacon. I'm not saying that's where he's going but the technology is there and his foundation is funding research into something like an RFID tattoo. Very easy to convince the masses that this is a necessary technology for safety given the new normal brought about by COVID19.
If I had billions of dollars I'd certainly be tempted to play worldbuilder. I very much doubt that he sees the masses as people - not out of heartlessness, but out of a necessary objectivity. They are statistics.
We already carry beacons in our pockets all the time, and the government is already a subpoena away from getting that data. What do injected beacons buy Bill Gates exactly? Whatever it is, it feels like a ton of effort for not a ton of gain, tracking-wise, given that the beacons we have already broadcast their location over a much larger area.