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[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Gates is a good guy now

gates has put his money into a charity to protect his money; charities are only required to share a pittance of their wealth by law and lots of oligarchs have been putting their money into charities because of it.

it's troubling to read that people are actually buying the bullshit that the pr firms are putting around this activity.

[–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes, this is on me. I unfortunately bought the bullshit.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago

no one is immune to propaganda and i suspect that a huge majority still thinks gates and other oligarchs have become good guy because of it.