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| Is Bill Gates' reputation as the world's most noble philanthropist about to be torn to shreds by a new book which claims his billions do more harm than good? |
| 2023-11-25 |
| [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] He was deserted by wife Melinda over his rumoured philandering and embarrassed by revelations about his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. The past few years haven't been kind to Bill Gates' image. But no matter how ugly the headlines have been for the nerdy Microsoft co-founder, formerly the world's richest man, we've been able to reassure ourselves that — personal foibles aside — he's one of the good guys. For didn't he and his former wife Melinda pledge to give away 95 per cent of their vast fortune and lean on other billionaires to be similarly generous? And didn't the most influential power couple on the planet set up the world's largest private charity, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that has already spent billions on alleviating poverty, malnutrition and disease and whose current $67 billion endowment is more than most countries' GDP? Surely all that counts for more than a wandering eye at the office and an ill-chosen friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, a paedophile conman courting the rich and powerful? Not according to a trenchant new book on 68-year-old Gates and his philanthropy. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #1 No one does more harm than the person who believes they are doing it for "The Greater Good." |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-11-25 07:01 |