In what world do you live?
> he should be happy with that and stop trying to tear down other people.
So, the truth deserves to remain hidden and people should continue to worship borderline psychos just because they got rich?
In what world do you live?
> he should be happy with that and stop trying to tear down other people.
So, the truth deserves to remain hidden and people should continue to worship borderline psychos just because they got rich?
I don't know whether that was the actual case. Or whether they have changed their policies. But it left me suspicious about motivations.
Anyways the whole purpose of the foundation seems to me to be to whitewash the reputation of a very bad person. Bill Gates committed a lot of crimes to put Microsoft on top. He got off for free from most of them, and lightly from most of the rest. But thanks to the Gates Foundation, history will remember him kindly for some time. Just like it did for Andrew Carnegie.
Lots of PR, money being directed towards maximizing media impact and arguably more bad than good being done.
It would be awesome if they had a missile base inside Mount Rainier ;-)
On a more serious note, they may well be one of the most influential charities in the world, but, unless the net result of their activities is good, they are not, really, doing good. Most of the criticism is because their activities are worsening the situation where they are trying to help. It also doesn't help when they push Microsoft (or other companies owned partly by Gates and his satellites) stuff along with their fully tax deductible good deeds.