Muh nooance, we gotta have a nooanced opinion about billionaires or else we're just as bad as them! I'M GONNA NOOOOANCE!
Amazing how despite probably lacking billionaire backing + feds, lemmitors will do the job for free. I've seen so much bill gates defense on here lol ๐ญ
Capitalism always lead to monopolies and a lack of competition. At some point one company will always get lucky and be able to use its money to completely destroy competition, especially small competition.
*Oligarchy always lead to monopolies and a lack of competition.
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Owl [he/him] - 3w
Early in the COVID pandemic, there was an effort to waive intellectual property laws for vaccines, so poor countries would have access to them. Gates personally intervened, because intellectual property laws are more important to him than millions of human lives.
Software wasn't even considered protected by copyright before 1976. Bill Gates essentially took advantage of an entirely new market. Compiled software binaries weren't protected by copyright until 1983.
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Moidialectica [he/him, comrade/them] - 3w
Incredible nuance in the comments. Such as saying bill gates still would've been a monopoly even if a communist economy was established.
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AntiOutsideAktion [he/him] - 3w
Pronounced "nuan-ceeee"
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ZWQbpkzl [none/use name] - 3w
Whenever there is a broad consensus, some people will disagree just to find a way to feel smarter. Nuance fetishization, and both-sidesism is the laziest way to go about it.
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DylanMc6 [any, any] - 3w
somebody please time-travel to 1976 so that they can use force to get bill gates to say that software is good and free. oh and this is also my 200th comment. seriously!
AntiOutsideAktion in slop
NUANCE! NUANCENUANCENUANCE! NUUUUUAAAAANNNNNCEEEEEEE
https://lemmy.ml/post/39578518?sort=ControversialMuh nooance, we gotta have a nooanced opinion about billionaires or else we're just as bad as them! I'M GONNA NOOOOANCE!
Amazing how despite probably lacking billionaire backing + feds, lemmitors will do the job for free. I've seen so much bill gates defense on here lol ๐ญ
edit i almost missed this lmfao
https://lemmy.ml/comment/22488087
"To be fair" lmao.
https://lemmy.ml/post/39578518/22491017
lmao, when you know what "oligarchy" means.
Early in the COVID pandemic, there was an effort to waive intellectual property laws for vaccines, so poor countries would have access to them. Gates personally intervened, because intellectual property laws are more important to him than millions of human lives.
https://jpia.princeton.edu/news/patents-pandemics-and-private-sector-battle-over-public-health-norms-during-covid-19
https://www.devex.com/news/gates-foundation-reverses-course-on-covid-19-vaccine-patents-99810
N-n-nuance!
Software wasn't even considered protected by copyright before 1976. Bill Gates essentially took advantage of an entirely new market. Compiled software binaries weren't protected by copyright until 1983.
Incredible nuance in the comments. Such as saying bill gates still would've been a monopoly even if a communist economy was established.
Pronounced "nuan-ceeee"
Whenever there is a broad consensus, some people will disagree just to find a way to feel smarter. Nuance fetishization, and both-sidesism is the laziest way to go about it.
somebody please time-travel to 1976 so that they can use force to get bill gates to say that software is good and free. oh and this is also my 200th comment. seriously!
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Ahh, brings me right back to Episode 1
There are a couple others that touch on how Gates isnโt โone of the good onesโ, but perhaps most in-depth is the two-parter on why oligarchs like Gates arenโt actually good people, just good at manipulating the press.