Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media

Re:Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media by tehjoker on Sunday August 09, 2020 @09:00PM (#24104399)

He's a billionaire. The government defends his billions from being redistributed by angry dying people. He doesn't want potential revolutionaries to be able to communicate easily.

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Re:Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media by goldenchrome on Sunday August 09, 2020 @09:05PM (#24104428)

This is the right answer. HN likes to think of Bill Gates as a techophile because that’s where he started, but today he’s foremost a billionaire with more to lose than to gain.

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Re:Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media by kabacha on Sunday August 09, 2020 @09:08PM (#24104453)

Isn't he very vocal about the fact that rich should be taxed heavily?

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Re:Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media by jkestner on Sunday August 09, 2020 @10:40PM (#24104937)

Vocal, as in he did the usual billionaire dissembling about how Warren's wealth tax would take 90% of his fortune and kill innovation. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elizabeth-warren-would-love-to-...

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Re:Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media by evan_ on Sunday August 09, 2020 @11:48PM (#24105313)

and of course 10% of his fortune is still more than all the money made in the lifetime of every person Who will read this combined

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Re:Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media by jkestner on Monday August 10, 2020 @10:25AM (#24109582)

And Warren's actual proposed rate, 3% for everything over $1 billion, is outpaced by the 11% annual rate of return for the S&P 500 over the last 30 years. A wealth tax would just slow down how fast the rich get richer.

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