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Insanityyesterday at 8:46 PM2 repliesview on HN

These binary distinctions (mostly) don't work for people in the real world. It's not a book or movie where people are clearly either good or bad, in reality all people are a mix of both.

He's still doing his work on philanthropy which is IMO a good thing.

The one counterexample to my point that I'd think of is Hitler. And _technically_ he did do good things for Germany as well, the bad just overwhelmingly outshines the good in this case.


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sobkasyesterday at 9:24 PM

He uses philanthropy to force his ideology on everyone and his ideology doesn't work. His philanthropy makes things worse not better.

At some point it stops being a philanthropy when it makes lives of people he tries to "help" worse. Like his actions have a ulterior motives...

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_whiteCaps_yesterday at 8:53 PM

You mean his philanthropy work that influences where public money goes, into companies like Monsanto and Cargill which his foundation profits from?

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