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[–] DreamAccountant@lemmy.world 12 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

Sure, I'll do it after I'm dead.

Or maybe not. Guess you'll have to outlive him to find out if he's just a scummy billionaire like the rest.

Someone's public relations department is working overtime so Billy boy doesn't get eaten.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 3 hours ago

He'll be 90. That's not all that unlikely

[–] assaultpotato@sh.itjust.works 13 points 22 hours ago

? This isn't the giving pledge, which is ALSO still active. The Gates Foundation is massively increasing its budget so it won't survive in perpetuity, trying to fill a portion of the gap created by the death of USAID.

There are many things to be mad about. This is not one of them.

[–] essteeyou@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Making good the enemy of perfect.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 3 points 6 hours ago

Like him buying all farmland he can get hands on? That's not ancient history. Or him monopolising vaccines? That kind of "good"?