Lemmy expects the rich to splat their money out and solve everything, all at once. Told this story a few times:
There’s an Indian proverb where a rich man is appalled by the poverty he sees. Gives a rupee to every beggar he sees, until he has no more rupees to give. He finds himself a beggar amongst the very people he tried to help, and didn’t accomplish anything at all.
I’m not getting paid by Gates here. I understand where he came from and what he did to get where he’s at, watched it in real time during my IT career. But goddam is he doing good works. He’s an elderly man trying his best to leave a positive impact on the world. Not gonna act like he’s some supervillain.
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.
Lemmy expects the rich to splat their money out and solve everything, all at once. Told this story a few times:
There’s an Indian proverb where a rich man is appalled by the poverty he sees. Gives a rupee to every beggar he sees, until he has no more rupees to give. He finds himself a beggar amongst the very people he tried to help, and didn’t accomplish anything at all.
I’m not getting paid by Gates here. I understand where he came from and what he did to get where he’s at, watched it in real time during my IT career. But goddam is he doing good works. He’s an elderly man trying his best to leave a positive impact on the world. Not gonna act like he’s some supervillain.
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.
I’ve seen people called corporate shills on lemmy before, but I’ve never seen somebody admit to being a corporate shill.
Sorry what do for work helps progress clinical trials for vaccines that eradicate malaria.
What do you do?
Keep fighting the good fight!