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Re:Bill and Melinda Gates: America’s Top Farmland Owner by norenh on Thursday January 14, 2021 @03:49PM (#25782268)
You might be right, but I do feel that it is a difference between a board game and real world.

The decisions you make for the company affects the real world (even thought it is in the role of a artificial entity, like a company) and have real consequences on people and the state of the world.

The same in not true for the decisions you make in a board game or computer game.

Of course some might say board games affect the real world but the difference in scale is so large it is negligible.

Re:Bill and Melinda Gates: America’s Top Farmland Owner by hyperman1 on Thursday January 14, 2021 @05:24PM (#25783613)
that's clearly true, of course. I don't want to defend Bill or Microsoft (not that he needs me to). I simply see it as a way to explain his behaviour.