[podgietaru]

Bill Gates, famous climate activist? Mmm.

[ZeroGravitas]

He spent most of that effort undermining proven solutions and propping up his own investments which have a poor record so this is not out of character.

[shimman]

Let's also not forget his wife divorcing him over his Epstein partying.

[TiredOfLife]

And not the long and rampart infidelity

[DANmode]

Why would it be one or the other,

not emphatically both?

Odd to say.

[DANmode]

I specifically came here hoping to find authoritative discussion on whether or not this could be a net-good in any way,

despite him controlling the Foundation.

[DANmode]

Reply.

[Rebelgecko]

The problem with AI is that no one has gotten around to asking it how to solve climate change. Once we do, it'll all be ok

[kennywinker]

Don’t forget: friend of notorious pedophile jeffery epstein.

[dev_l1x_be]

The helped easing up on the resources of Earth with his investment in certain pharma companies and now owns a giant amount of the farmland of the US too.

[giancarlostoro]

> now owns a giant amount of the farmland of the US too.

What for though? I always hear this, but what's the point of it?

[cma]

Any given year congress could pass something letting farmland owned before X date be passed to your children without taxes. I've seen lots of congressmen telling sob stories about a constituent losing the 8-figure family farm due to taxes. Gates owns the farmland personally, not in the foundation. But it could just be diversifying assets. Lots of tech billionaires buy up lots of land.

[mikeyouse]

He’s donated something like $100 billion already… there’s no chance he’s buying farmland as an inheritance tax dodge.

[giancarlostoro]

He has also said it many, many times, he's not leaving his kids anything.

[cma]

I was thinking Buffett said that and Gates was still leaving some. I don't know why the farmland then. Maybe to get easy access to veterinarian antibiotics.

[Obscurity4340]

Hes leaving them each 10 million but they're all pretty accomplished i believe already

[mrhottakes]

Hoarding resources