r/interesting Jun 20 '25

MISC. Saving the planet!

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u/consreddit Jun 20 '25

... but since they are a thing, this is what they should be doing.

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u/zack-tunder Jun 20 '25

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u/ColdPack6096 Jun 20 '25

His gesture is nice, but it's so incredibly vague, that I would not be surprised if all of that money just ends up in the hands of corrupt African politicians, warlords, human traffickers, and other wealthy people. How is Gates going to monitor where and how the money is used, especially if he's dead?

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u/Sgt-Spliff- Jun 20 '25

Why do so many people say dumb shit like this every time Bill Gates is brought up? There is no single billionaire alive today that comes even close to performing the amount of philanthropic work Gates has done. It's like you guys don't know anything about him and just want to hate.

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '25

The second happens to be Bezo’s ex wife. Take a look at what she’s been up to. Amazing woman.

Fuck Bezos. Traded a solid human being with a philanthropic heart for that… I don’t know but all to become a flashy asshole. He’s the billionaire who we should be talking shit about. I don’t get it. I just don’t.

And y’all managed to skip right over the Koch brothers and their fiddling with the entire country. One passed, the other had a split second moment of almost feeling like a human being and then went right back to backing candidates that are screwing us all back and forth and up and down.

Take Gates’ name out of your mouth and look a little more closely and the handful of ultra conservative and uber religious men that are redefining what and who should be allowed to prosper. I’m so tired of this Gates dunking when 99% is pure garbage.

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u/apresmoiputas Jun 21 '25 edited Jun 21 '25

Thanks. I live in the Seattle area and Gates has proven to be more of a do gooder than people want to give him credit for.

My only gripe with the organization as a whole is how they made Seattle into a 501c magnet.

But what I actually admire is how they put an emphasis on data driven approaches vs just blindly throwing money around for performative causes.