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[-] Veraticus@lib.lgbt 230 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Sure.

Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation will probably eradicate polio.

Before people jump on the bandwagon about how Gates is evil and problematic, that there are no virtuous billionaires, and a government or an NGO or an equivalent should have been the one to do it... I know. But the question was "name one billionaire that's done anything good," and I think it's pretty difficult to argue that eradicating polio isn't good.

[-] nonearther@lemmy.ml 88 points 10 months ago

On same tone, Warren Buffet.

He has also donated billions in the same charity and largely lives controversy free.

[-] insomniac@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The company he’s synonymous with is very much not controversy free

[-] OptimusPhillip@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago

Yeah, dude is asking the wrong question.

[-] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml -1 points 10 months ago

Bill gates is not curing polio, it's the doctors and scientists that are doing it.

[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee -5 points 10 months ago

Bill gates, also the guy who spent loads of time on epsteins island banging children. I guess it evens out /s

[-] wahming@monyet.cc 3 points 10 months ago
[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee -1 points 10 months ago

Pretty easy to find the connections on google. Try it. Start with his divorce and work backward. Just because you love him doesn’t mean he didn’t do bad things.

[-] wahming@monyet.cc 3 points 10 months ago

Ah, the classic 'Do your own research'

[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee -4 points 10 months ago

Ahh the classic dismissive “source?”

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