Finally, a billionaire willing to smack back at capitalism
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Gates getting a large group of billionaires to donate half was also over a decade ago. The half always made sense since the other half could still be dedicated to productive capital that contributes back to philanthropy half.
I guess when it’s the environment and not trying to save hundreds of millions of lives through eradicating malaria and related health/development investments it gets treated as uniquely special?
Also the attitude of zero sum wealth is so glaring in the article.
The constant swipes at capitalism is getting boring too.
Without capitalism there would not have been wealth to donate (and other isms also cause damage to the planet in the first place).
Not that I will ever be in the same shoes as him, but I get it. I wouldn't want to be associated with the ruthless wealth-creating monsters on that list either. Those people have destroyed their humanity and now they are destroying humanity itself.
Looks like he just wasted 3 billion. Why not donate that money to something real like R&D of renewables? This will just fund more people who are profesional climate grifters: telling you that you are murdering the planet any time you do anything, and that the world will be uninhabitable and over becuase of you, all while collecting a fat check from this nonprofit.
You spend $100 on convincing people that they need to spend money on r&d, you're $100 can contribute far more than $100 to overall movement towards an end to climate change.
Is this what is going to happen with that money? I don't know. However, it's possible that this is still a good move even though it isn't going directly to research.
isn't that pretty much the austerity that environmentalists want since they can't just kill off people to lower the population?
They do not generally want everyone to eat rice everyday. Maybe the most extreme ones do, but that's the nature of every group, there are extreme nutters.
That does seem pretty bad.
That's because this isn't the goal of capitalism. The goal is growth and positive ROI through the use of private ownership of the means of production. Labor, like land and capital, are just an input to production in capitalism. And "noble missions" - whatever that means - are meaningless. They are subjective and have nothing to do with the economic system.
> For once, a billionaire is doing something worthy of our applause.
Populist bullshit. I'm happy companies like Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Google, etc. exist. They have made my life so much easier. One of the founders of JetBrains (IntelliJ, PyCharm) became a billionaire because they make spectacular products. Yes, these companies have issues, but welcome to reality: everything has issues. Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater.
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Lol what?
Sadly large portions of our population actually believe this.
I fully sympathize with all foreign companies that have no meaningful REVENUE from the European Union who instead of putting themselves in possible legal jeopardy just decide to block traffic from the EU and be done with it. It's the honorable thing to do, and frankly Europeans should be looking in the mirror and be asking if our good intentions of consumer privacy protection are actually leading the stifling of our digital landscape due to over-regulation. A good indication to me that a law is not working is if it is so over-reaching that very few companies (even within EU) are able to comply with all of its requirements.
Gotta love how the inability to respect GDPR and privacy leads to someone blocking the whole EU from accessing the website.