Sad, cause it was a great scene by him

I need you to stop doing that.

Answering more than was asked.

8 people now have more than 53% of the world combined.

Octopi if the base word was Latin. It’s Greek, so octopodes for plural. Technically.

Because English is a bastard if a language octopuses and octopi are fine too.

Sorry what do for work helps progress clinical trials for vaccines that eradicate malaria.

What do you do?

You must be real fun at parties.

Perfect is not the enemy of good.

I have a retirement account that invested in broad markets as well, and some of that is in energy for funds that include those stocks in their prospectus.

If that makes me responsible for death while I spend my days working to help save lives, you have a rather lofty set of expectations.

In effect, anyone who takes part in paying for gas, having a target date fund in their 401k, or purchases any product from an energy company is complicit in deaths. No 10 random people in any room live up to this standard.

The transition away from the stranglehold oil as an industry has on the world can’t and won’t happen overnight. He doesn’t run an oil company, he doesn’t work to expand drilling rights, he works to repurpose wealth into human benefit and some of that requires diversification into energy markets.

If that is a step too far for giving away 100 billion dollars, I don’t know what to tell you.

I am being paid by the foundation, full disclosure, but my agreement or disagreement with the man has nothing to do with working to further clinical trials that save human lives.

The foundation has saved tens of millions of lives.

His asset portfolio is invested in everything from energy to farmland.

As far as billionaires go, you could do a lot worse than having a portfolio diversified while saving millions of people by giving away billions of dollars.

It’s sorta bizarre to me.

If he had not given away all the wealth trying to fight diarrheal disease, HIV, TB, and try to source the solutions to the countries themselves… he would have been the richest man in the world even in the 2020s.

Did he fuck some strange? Yeah.

Did he act ruthlessly in business to get ahead? Yeah.

Is he responsible for 80 MILLION lives saved? Yeah.

Guy is doing what whole nations have failed to do and it’s on his back. Somehow that gets so much hate.