At this point it could be ideology or it could be stock market manipulation - remember Gates holds a huge short on stock in Musk companies.
I'm not sure if Gates actually knows the difference between a deeply-held moral conviction and something that provides him financial benefit by this point.
Honestly, it could just be a billionaire pissing contest at this point.
Marc Andressen was one of the main sources the writers of Silicon Valley hit up for "local color", and it sounds like the stupidity of Gavin Belson's schemes to one-up his fellow "3 Comma Clubbers" were pretty typical.
I know psychoanalyzing people is a very leftist thing to do, but I can't help wonder just how people like this reconcile these things to themselves.
It would be easy to dismiss Gates as just another psychopath like Soros and Schwab, but is that it, or is he just suffering from a titanic messiah complex? If he really thinks what he's doing is in the public interest, then how does he justify to himself silencing the people he claims he's trying to help, or forcing things onto them that they keep protesting they don't want?
I think his bridge troll ex-wife got him started down this path (she is insufferably woke, arrogant and entitled) with her quest to win the Nobel.
The Federal government had already taken the fun out of his one true passion - growing his company. He could no longer compete like he used to. He had become Tiger Woods with his gimpy legs and cracked back.
Once Bill turned toward philanthropy, all of a sudden the same news, entertainment, and government entities that had been demonizing him for decades were blowing smoke up his ass. It created a hell of a positive feedback loop, especially for an obsessive competitor (seriously, read about his childhood) who was also, paradoxically, still considered a "loser" at the time as far as his public image was concerned.
Perhaps when you make yourself rich and everyone sings your praises, you can't help but conclude you're special. It's only natural to think so, with the objective proof of the fruits of your efforts plus the world's positive feedback. And so, filled with good intentions (and a lack of humble virtue, the key mistake in that situation), you set off to improve the world against the will of people who don't know better.
Humility is the most important virtue, and its opposite pride is the worst sin. Through lack of humility, initial charitable efforts can be perverted by interests on self-assertion, legacy, power, and so on. Good intentions and pride can be mixed confusingly from the beginning, or charity can be but a self-excuse for the pursuit of titanic pride. Humility is the key. People go bad without it.
At this point it could be ideology or it could be stock market manipulation - remember Gates holds a huge short on stock in Musk companies.
I'm not sure if Gates actually knows the difference between a deeply-held moral conviction and something that provides him financial benefit by this point.
Honestly, it could just be a billionaire pissing contest at this point.
Marc Andressen was one of the main sources the writers of Silicon Valley hit up for "local color", and it sounds like the stupidity of Gavin Belson's schemes to one-up his fellow "3 Comma Clubbers" were pretty typical.
I know psychoanalyzing people is a very leftist thing to do, but I can't help wonder just how people like this reconcile these things to themselves.
It would be easy to dismiss Gates as just another psychopath like Soros and Schwab, but is that it, or is he just suffering from a titanic messiah complex? If he really thinks what he's doing is in the public interest, then how does he justify to himself silencing the people he claims he's trying to help, or forcing things onto them that they keep protesting they don't want?
I think his bridge troll ex-wife got him started down this path (she is insufferably woke, arrogant and entitled) with her quest to win the Nobel.
The Federal government had already taken the fun out of his one true passion - growing his company. He could no longer compete like he used to. He had become Tiger Woods with his gimpy legs and cracked back.
Once Bill turned toward philanthropy, all of a sudden the same news, entertainment, and government entities that had been demonizing him for decades were blowing smoke up his ass. It created a hell of a positive feedback loop, especially for an obsessive competitor (seriously, read about his childhood) who was also, paradoxically, still considered a "loser" at the time as far as his public image was concerned.
Thus Saint Bill of Davos was born.
Perhaps when you make yourself rich and everyone sings your praises, you can't help but conclude you're special. It's only natural to think so, with the objective proof of the fruits of your efforts plus the world's positive feedback. And so, filled with good intentions (and a lack of humble virtue, the key mistake in that situation), you set off to improve the world against the will of people who don't know better.
Humility is the most important virtue, and its opposite pride is the worst sin. Through lack of humility, initial charitable efforts can be perverted by interests on self-assertion, legacy, power, and so on. Good intentions and pride can be mixed confusingly from the beginning, or charity can be but a self-excuse for the pursuit of titanic pride. Humility is the key. People go bad without it.
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