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Addendum from MS' reality: but not for catering to their needs - only for learning how you can force your product down their throats even if they don't like it.

Some people are just happy to be miserable though. You could burn through a lot of cash trying to make a crazy person happy.

can you stop using devrant to advertise your ig posts?

i give negative fucks about bill gates being "extremenly" rich

... sometimes and sometimes they’re just assholes.

@vane yeah right, you gotta spot the pessimist from the criticist

@3picName you need learn how to differentiate generalizations from observations.

@M1sf3t I don’t know what Mr. Gates did as we don’t know and talk with each other and I don’t like to talk about other people without their presence :)

I know that he - like any other intelligent person reads enormous amount of books.

Actually I don’t know if he ever got any demanding customers or not, who were them and what was their demands but as any famous person he can write and talk whatever he want and people will listen to him. I hope he will use this power for doing good things.

@M1sf3t Well I think most of us underestimate ourselves.

We do that just by looking at those so called “stars” that won’t be there without people backing them up. We live other people lives and make their dreams instead of living and making ours.

How many people dropped their dreams when starting work with someone like Gates or Musk ? How many of them could do better or worse for the world if they follow they path ? Without uncovering some infinite parallel universes we would never know.

Ex. maybe there won’t be Jobs without Wozniak.

There’s obvious chaos theory “butterfly effect” that shows how accidental the universe is despite people trying to measure it.

I can’t agree that one person can make a difference but I can agree that one person can convince countries or continents to follow one dream. It’s obvious from just looking at religious beliefs or history of human kind.

The fact is that real power is in the collective. The more people gather to do same things the more powerful things they can achieve. To do this people need some respective leader with great charisma, someone who they can blind follow.

We are just lucky bastards those charismatic people aren’t some military generals that want destroy themselves like 100 years ago.

Stop plugging your Instagram, for fucks sake

Of course.
Let me just make a statement to make it escalate.

C++ bad

There we go. Now we wait.

@PrivateGER manual control and optimization reeeeeeeeeee

@M1sf3t Bill Gates may have done questionable stuff and some not-so-bright stuff as head of MS but imo his work with the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation is pretty damn good, I think it more than makes up for whatever he may have done at Microsoft (not all bad there, either).

@M1sf3t a poor person giving another guy his shirt is an absolutely majestic thing to do and and would definitely help out the other guy. But it doesn't fix economic growth drivers, lack of domestic and foreign investment, poor governmental support and organization, poor infrastructurel/healthcare/education/etc., lack of emerging technologies/markets/jobs, and so on, which are the actual causes of poverty.

The people who can fix those are the ones who can move tons of resources around i.e. the government, billionaires, people with large public followings, etc. (People who get things done via activism etc. fall in the third category). So, Gates' work definitely is extremely valuable.

Does that make the dude who gave his shirt to the other dude useless? No, because they are in a situation in which it was the only thing viable and it helped. There's space for and value in both kinds of contributions, but imo if you want to change stuff large scale, the Gates method works way better.

@M1sf3t oh, I'm so sorry
I was writing out a reply, edited it a few times, and then fell asleep. Been a bit busy with stuff.

You're right that what I know is very textbook, heh. So, the kind of stuff you're talking about is mentioned in the books ("debt traps or loan traps", "difficulty of a week-to-week existence" or other such academic phrases), the generally accepted solution for *immediate relief* is the welfare state, in which the govt. supports citizens directly (food distribution at low prices, free or cheap medical care, mandatory employment, unemployment benefits, cheap and good education, etc). This is especially strong in Europe (Nordic countries, Belgium, Netherlands, etc).

Modern economies spend a fuckton of resources on stuff like this. It's also sort of buying time till they get the large scale reforms done or till people can drag themselves out (ideally).

@M1sf3t there are other methods too, like the cooperatives model followed in some places in Bangladesh and India (examples that I know of). Basically a bunch of people pool in their resources so that that have more collective purchasing and bargaining power, risk and losses are distributed across a group, and they also lend out money to each other at extremely low rates. Sort of like a bunch of friends or neighbours helping each other out, only a bit more formal (it's a really nice system).

There are other ways in which governments control money supply, buying & selling rates, and so on which indirectly affect all this, like by changing taxes, changing the reserve ratio and common interest rates at banks, spending on its own, etc.

Coming back to the original point, what Gates does is basically become a part of the giving end of the welfare state, and also helping out with long term changes.