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[–] [email protected] 32 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If you've never dug deeply into the ramifications of the Gates' charity work, you might be surprised how much they use charity and their organizations to exert influence and control over the regions they help. It isn't purely from the goodness of their hearts: billionaire philanthropy is both a PR tactic for washing over their bad behaviors and a way of creating a captive, dependent population that you can control.