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Elon Musk is responsible for “killing the world’s poorest children,” says Bill Gates
(arstechnica.com)
this post was submitted on 08 May 2025
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Elon is a Nazi
Bill gates is always spending his money eradicating diseases. Maybe he can eradicate this musk disease too
I cannot be the only one here who sees tiny hands.
Fuck, I can't unsee it now.
I got downvoted on Lemmy the other day because I said that I prefer Bill Gates to Musk.
Maybe there are things about Gates I don't know. Maybe he is actually quite an evil person; I don't know. But he does at least spend billions of dollars helping vulnerable people, right? And Bill's stances on global politics are far more sensible than those of Musk.
There are no good billionaires. But I must agree that Bill Gates cannot be compared to Elon Musk. Bill has done evil, but his evil doesn't compare to what Elon Musk is doing right now
I think it's a silly to waste one's time struggling over deciding which one is worse. They're both billionaires who spend hundreds of millions of dollars undermining the public interest. Gates just cares more about his PR than Musk.
I get what you're saying 100%, but it's really not a struggle to decide which one is worse.
The massive cock slobbering that Warren Buffet got at his Woodstock of Capitalism last week was nauseating. All the media were fawning over how he’s still a small-town Nebraska bumpkin. I have to hand it to him he crafted his image perfectly as a “good billionaire” too.
Oh but I heard he lives in a humble little house in Omaha!
"Humble Little House in Omaha"----->
They're tone deaf. Comparatively that property IS humble in the world of billionaires. But that ain't no roach infested bachelor.
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He absolutely can be compared to Musk -- he's better than musk.
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Nuance is lost on a lot of people on here. All billionaires bad therefore no billionaire is preferred. While I agree there's no good billionaire there's a spectrum of bad. Like would I rather break my pelvis or break my legs? Both are bad but one is preferable.
None are preferrable. Nobody should have that much wealth, power, and influence.
Thanks for proving my point.
That nuance is not important - it's not worth wasting your breath on. If people focused on root causes of the dysfunction and the change needed to solve the issues plaguing our societies - we'd be much better off.
The nuance isn't lost to me, I just don't care to quantify it and then shout it out to the heavens. It makes no difference to me whether Elon Musk is worse than Bill Gates. They can duke that battle out themselves if they care to.
None are preferable.
Yes, that is accepted.
But, given the reality that billionaires do exist, one that spends his money curing diseases is less bad than one who is closing hospitals serving war round populations or actively starving people.
I think making value judgements on individuals is a counterproductive use of our time, energy, and voice. That's what I'm trying to point out.
If we focused on root causes and the change we'd like to see to solve those problems, we'd be smooth sailing as a world already.
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