AbuTahir@lemm.ee to News@lemmy.world · 4 days agoBill Gates: Microsoft founder to give most of $200bn fortune to Africawww.bbc.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square45fedilinkarrow-up1148arrow-down126
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minus-squaredavel [he/him]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down4·4 days agoBill Gates has the best public relations machine money can buy. The Nation: Why Bill Gates’s Philanthropy Is a Problem Jacobin: Bill Gates’s Philanthropic Giving Is a Racket Adam Ruins Everything: Why Billionaire Philanthropy is Not So Selfless Citations Needed podcast: Episode 45: The Not-So-Benevolent Billionaire: Bill Gates and Western Media Episode 46: The Not-So-Benevolent Billionaire, Part II - Bill Gates in Africa News Brief: Big Pharma, Bill Gates Spin Against Generic Vaccines for Global South as Biden a No Show News Brief: #VaxLive is a PR Scam So Those Causing Vaccine Inequity Can Pose as Saviors of Global Poor Episode 146: Bill Gates, Bono and the Limits of World Bank and IMF-Approved Celebrity ‘Activism’
minus-squareauraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down4·edit-24 days agoStopped reading after the first one used his listed illiquid wealth (which probably includes a notable chunk of Microsoft stock that he can’t just dump on market).
minus-squareSpacetimeMachine@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down2·3 days agoThat can still be used to leverage loans, and is still very much a form of power, just like his on hand cash is.
minus-squareauraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·edit-23 days agoAye no shit. Still doesn’t mean it’s liquid. Can’t get a loan if you don’t plan to pay it back.
Bill Gates has the best public relations machine money can buy.
Stopped reading after the first one used his listed illiquid wealth (which probably includes a notable chunk of Microsoft stock that he can’t just dump on market).
That can still be used to leverage loans, and is still very much a form of power, just like his on hand cash is.
Aye no shit. Still doesn’t mean it’s liquid. Can’t get a loan if you don’t plan to pay it back.