[dhoulb]

I mean, two of them have pledged to give away their wealth, and the other is actively seeking ideas to do so.

If they’re giving it away anyway, what’s the problem?

I guess if you’re in that lower 50% of the US, it might sorta suck that Gates is sorting out renewable energy and malaria and not just directly giving you money? But it’s possibly a little repugnant to complain about it?

(Although I fully acknowledge it isn’t ACTUALLY poorer folk complaining about it, it’s moderately well off journalists fake-complaining about it to rile up other moderately well off folks on the internet.)

[eesmith]

I do not like how the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's funding of alternate education models has given undue weight to the views of just one person. I think it is undemocratic.

Quoting http://curmudgucation.blogspot.se/2017/10/gates-shifts-gears... concerning the Foundation's recent decision to spend an additional $1.7 Billion on education:

> So there's a slight shift of direction, but one thing stays the same-- the Gates conviction that he can serve as an unelected, unexperienced tsar of American education, reworking education to his will by sheer force of money. After seventeen years, he still hasn't noticed that he isn't helping.