These binary distinctions (mostly) don't work for people in the real world. It's not a book or movie where people are clearly either good or bad, in reality all people are a mix of both.

He's still doing his work on philanthropy which is IMO a good thing.

The one counterexample to my point that I'd think of is Hitler. And _technically_ he did do good things for Germany as well, the bad just overwhelmingly outshines the good in this case.

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sobkas an hour ago | parent | next [-]

He uses philanthropy to force his ideology on everyone and his ideology doesn't work. His philanthropy makes things worse not better.

At some point it stops being a philanthropy when it makes lives of people he tries to "help" worse. Like his actions have a ulterior motives...

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Insanity an hour ago | parent [-]

Interesting. Honestly I don't know as much about his philanthropy, which ideology does he push? How did it make lives worse?

	▲	soperj 34 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Common Core for one.

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_whiteCaps_ 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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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Insanity 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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”.

	▲	sobkas an hour ago \| parent [-]
		His "charitable" contributions are only in place to charity wash his awful actions in the past and now. And it worked, everyone thinks of Saint Bill and his supposed good deeds while forgetting what he actually did or doing right now.

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jmcgough an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

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.

	▲	sobkas an hour ago \| parent [-]
		And how many people would have been saved if he didn't forcibly extracted that money from society to begin with? Because it's almost impossible to not help someone if he just throw wads of money at random. What important is how many people weren't saved because he decided to be a middle man in all of it?