I don't like Bill Gates either. Regardless of whether folks like him and George Soros do what they do to "help the world," it's really hard to trust their intentions. This falls in line with the "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely" premise. Someone like Soros made a living shorting currencies and destroying the purchasing of millions of people for his personal gain and agenda, yet he and others are supposedly champions of the world, or doing "god's work" as Lloyd Blankfein once said. I think not.
I kind of believe they think they are being benevolent dictators with their money. But again I think it's a little Trumpian that it's about their ego, it's how they refuse to let go of their relevance to the world, and they are likely filled with enough hubris to create all sorts of damage and havoc in an unchecked environment.
It's basically Pablo Escobar with the local poor -- just without the murderous drug trade side.
The problem with politics is it's a lucrative reality TV show where the worst rise to the top and fans fuel the flames with their obsessive nature over people who they think care about them. A recipe for disaster.
Pretty much. The narcissism is strong in most, and people feed them that.
I will never believe the intentions of Bill Gates are good.
But does it honestly matter at this point?
I mean, unless his masterscheme involves slaughtering 15 million people, he'll have done more good than harm.
I don't see it that way myself. Much like Pablo Escobar, what passes as personal philanthropy can often be a desire for power and influence -- and ideally one that's extrajudicial with no checks or balances. And that philanthropy serves the power interests as well.
It's much like a pharma company that has more interest in keeping people sick and paying for their medications rather than curing them and losing customers. Philanthropy is a way to keep the systems in place that they have mastered for their own personal power and advantages. And it serves as a defense or a foil to potential threats or even just public sentiment to question those very abused systems of power that made them successful in the first place.
Yes, I am comparing the philanthropy of Bill Gates and George Soros to Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy at a societal level.