• Cruxifux@feddit.nl
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    We should focus on both of those things and take all these clowns money away. Seriously, Bill Gates just goes around the world now and makes speeches to people about how to make the world worse. We should just put him in prison and use his money to improve the world somewhat.

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      Aid for the poor is not something we should focus on, at least not as Bill Gates uses it. Aid inherently creates dependency and a power dynamic. Foreign aid plays an integral part to developing populations’ subjugation to multinational corporations and their corrupt local government allies. Bill Gates promotes aid for the poor because he wants to continue subjugating the poor.

      Thanks to aid for the poor, Bill Gates sets standards for the school curriculums of many US American schools, and Bill Gates can heavily influence law in East African countries, where his malaria eradication charity is picking which countries to save tens of thousands of lives in. Including the ones that just happen to be building the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline that Bill Gates is complaining climate activists are protesting against.

      What we need is (1) unconditional redistribution of wealth so that poverty doesn’t exist, and (2) mutual aid between equal peers, and never the two shall meet.

      Delete Microsoft’s patents, give Microsoft product maintenance over to open source volunteers, do the same with all other companies, defund the police, introduce global universal basic income, delete private ownership, see people move into billionaire’s mansions, hijack their yachts to use for ocean plastic cleanup, convert corporate offices to housing, etc. I don’t know if prison would be necessary at that point - he seems like enough of an opportunist that if he understands his best way to be free and comfortable in solarpunk bliss is to never take on any position of power ever again, he would just peacefully retire.

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        I agree with you right up until you started talking about how he would just blissfully retire if he saw how great it would be.

        These people would nuke the entire planet before they’d allow you to remove their wealth from them. It absolutely needs to be done with force and needs to be ensured that it can never happen again.

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      We should use some of his money to build a nice, comfy, and secure prison for him. Same for other billionaires. They know deep down that’s a merciful outcome for them in the “climate apocalypse” they’ve created.