• snooggums
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    6 months ago

    They then paid anthropologists to spend years assimilating into remote villages around the world to earn their trust so they would accept the vaccine.

    Could have been paid through taxes instead of being the whim of a billionaire looking for a positive legacy.

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      6 months ago

      Agreed. I’m not saying he should have that much money. I’m saying he does far more benevolent things with it than most billionaires.

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            6 months ago

            It is easy to say those things when one has already reaped the rewards.

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              6 months ago

              Then why aren’t all the other billionaires saying it? We’re in agreement that they shouldn’t exist in the first place. All I’m saying is they’re trying to do the right thing with the money, which is incredibly rare in a world of Bezos, Waltons, Kochs, and Sacklers.

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          Why do people keep trying to argue points no one is arguing against. Especially continuing after people have pointed this out specifically.