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Another billionaire chooses Trump. This time, it’s the historically liberal Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.

Gates told The Wall Street Journal that he was “impressed” by the president-elect.

“I had a chance to go have a long, and actually quite intriguing dinner with him,” Gates said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. He noted that he talked to Trump for three hours, along with Trump aide Susie Wiles and Gates’s aide Larry Cohen.

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It’s a stunning remark from Gates, one of the richest people in the world, who previously said he donated more than $50 million to Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign. The news of the meeting comes after Trump claimed last month that the billionaire was begging to have a meeting with him.

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  • millie@beehaw.org
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    13 hours ago

    Is it not obvious?

    These are people who have the power to save lives, and yet don’t. Every day they could be providing affordable housing, medication, food, and other essential resources to people who don’t have them. They may set themselves up with tax shelters in the form of charitable donations, but are they out there at tent cities getting homeless people set up with safety nets when their lives fall apart? Are they personally providing life saving medication to those who the health insurance system is killing for profit?

    Every yacht, every private jet, every thousand dollar dinner, every vacation home, all of that is them deciding again and again that their own increased opulence is more important than lifting someone else out of suffering.

    Amassing wealth in greater quantities than vast droves will ever see in their lifetime while people are lacking basic necessities is not a morally neutral act. Being obscenely wealthy isn’t just an indicator of other potential moral failings, it is itself harmful and cruel. There’s no need for anything else.

    Being rich is itself evil.

    • Vodulas [they/them]@beehaw.org
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      7 hours ago

      Everything you plus the fact that you cannot become that wealthy without exploiting people. Just fucking sickening to see people defending billionaires

      • millie@beehaw.org
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        1 hour ago

        It’s honestly disturbing to see the owner of the instance expressing opinions like he is in this thread. It makes me question what I’m doing here.