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I'm really worried about the state of the US despite being a white male who was I'll coast right through it. I'll also accept "I don't" and "very poorly" as answers

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[-] kglitch@kglitch.social 22 points 1 year ago

With some ways of looking at things, the world as a whole is getting better, rather than worse.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190111-seven-reasons-why-the-world-is-improving

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/09/bill-melinda-gates-foundation-goalkeepers-report-poverty/671415/

I'm pretty sure long covid and climate chaos will put a stop to that soon enough but we'll see. For now, some stuff is getting worse and some stuff is getting better.

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

Who should listen to oligarchs like Bill Gates? Philanthropy Is a Scam

[-] LemmyHead@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

He's also the first one to be somewhere to lobby where a government decides to move away from windows, because it's gonna hurt his stock value

[-] taladar@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

He was also a major factor in denying the global south the IP-free vaccine production they had been promised.

[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I really hope we make sure to record in the history books that we absolutely had the capacity to save a heartbreaking number of human lives if we waived the vaccine IP and let India crank up production but instead we listened to murderers like Bill Gates who argued we had to protect intellectual property….

Pathetic is the only word for it.

[-] LemmyHead@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Let's create a Wikipedia page :)

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