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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

See that picture of the homeless man on top? Bill Gates has literally saved hundreds of thousands of men like him through his charitable foundations. It depends on the person not the size of the bank account.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You know what would help them?

A house.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That wouldn’t help, as they wouldn’t have the means to furnish it or maintain it or pay the taxes on it. What they need is medical care for the sizeable portion that have mental illness keeping them down. And all of them need an economic system that doesn’t let hard luck cases get thrown under the bus.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

You wouldn't believe how many of them have jobs and just need a house. It's the majority actually.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Right. Bill Gates is horribly evil and rich, and like many people in his shoes, he decided to be a philanthropist to fix his image. What if millions of other people had gotten that money instead of him? What if Windows hadn't been monopolistic? What kind of world would we be in today? A better one, most likely.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 week ago

Agreed. Any downvotes you got/get are simple shills of the mindsets "rich people bad" and "Windows bad", both of which are very prevalent here. Multiple people here (not all) throwing those downvotes around would be doing the same shit if they were billionaires, or worse.

Wish we could all be like Pepe.