• (Podcast) Citations Needed - The Not-So-Benevolent Billionaire (Bill Gates)
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This is a leftist podcast, they have a ton of good content about the failings of the neoliberal democratic establishment in adequately addressing the growing threat of the GOP, but this specific episode I wanted to post because there's this narrative of "good billionaires" that's pervasive in the US. https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-45-the-not-so-benevolent-billionaire-bill-gates-and-western-media It's a pretty good podcast in general for anyone left-leaning. There's others too, as well as the growing anti-reactionary youtube crowd of people like Shaun, Contrapoints, hbomberguy.
personally I think 'billionaire' and 'good' are pretty much mutually exclusive
I mean yeah anyone who hasn't whitewashed how microsoft became so successful should realize that. Hasn't stopped the narrative of "Bill and Melinda Gates foundation has done good things so that excuses the fact that they're obscenely rich on ill gotten gains". Same thing applies to most billionaires, Musk has been criticized heavily, and finally it's come into acceptable discourse to criticize him. There's also the Kochs, they're generally disliked by liberals and leftists but they have a huge part in funding regressive think tanks and ultra conservative PACs. And since the recent supreme court decision to allow dark money funding, who even knows anymore. The guest in the podcast I linked has a book, "No Such Thing as a Free Gift". It goes over all of this but she summarizes it in the video. This is why it's so important that people like Bernie and all the other politicians platforming on social democratic ideals refuse corporate funds.
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