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_whiteCaps_yesterday at 8:53 PM2 repliesview on HN

You mean his philanthropy work that influences where public money goes, into companies like Monsanto and Cargill which his foundation profits from?


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Insanityyesterday at 9:00 PM

They work in healthcare, education, gender equality initiatives, green energy..

I’m not a fan of MSFT but there are worse uses of the money he made from the company.

I think it’s a bit unfair to categorize all of his contributions to charity as “not charitable”.

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jmcgoughyesterday at 9:29 PM

I don't think a healthy society has anything close to our level of wealth concentration, but even if he's made mistakes, he's saved many millions of lives.

Compare that to Elon Musk, who uses his Musk Foundation as a tax shelter, only spending from it for a private school for his children.

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