Yeah, reflecting back on the hell he made my life with all that antitrust shit recently really got me ashamed I’d ever slipped and given him any generous thoughts at all. The dude is a piece of shit, through and through.
He was an asshole in business, got fabulously wealthy, cheated on his wife, all very normal rich things from what we knew at the time. We gave him generous thoughts because he had mostly gotten out of the business and started plilanthropy.
Giving him some credit at that point was warranted, given what we thought we knew. Who were we to guess?
Now, the real question, from my perspective: Did all the rich/elite 100% know he was trafficking? Were everyone in all those pictures complicit? I’m inclined to say yes. I don’t think they ‘close friends’ just stayed till the end of the party for the “eyes wide shut” shit.
Never give a billionaire credit for philanthropy. It’s either a PR scheme, tax evasion loophole, or vanity project for them. You don’t get that kind of money in the first place by being anything other than a sociopath and that’s not something that can be cured.
Knowing what we know now, it could be attempted atonement. I’ve seen lots of old people who were assholes their whole life being real nice trying to get into heaven.
The slashdotters likely remember when Gates literally tried to make the web proprietary with IE6 and ActiveX, among other sleazy BS.
He can get wrecked.
We do.
Yeah, reflecting back on the hell he made my life with all that antitrust shit recently really got me ashamed I’d ever slipped and given him any generous thoughts at all. The dude is a piece of shit, through and through.
He was an asshole in business, got fabulously wealthy, cheated on his wife, all very normal rich things from what we knew at the time. We gave him generous thoughts because he had mostly gotten out of the business and started plilanthropy.
Giving him some credit at that point was warranted, given what we thought we knew. Who were we to guess?
Now, the real question, from my perspective: Did all the rich/elite 100% know he was trafficking? Were everyone in all those pictures complicit? I’m inclined to say yes. I don’t think they ‘close friends’ just stayed till the end of the party for the “eyes wide shut” shit.
Never give a billionaire credit for philanthropy. It’s either a PR scheme, tax evasion loophole, or vanity project for them. You don’t get that kind of money in the first place by being anything other than a sociopath and that’s not something that can be cured.
Knowing what we know now, it could be attempted atonement. I’ve seen lots of old people who were assholes their whole life being real nice trying to get into heaven.
/me eyes EME
cough google cough