We must act as one.

I get that the point you're trying to make is something about unity, but it's weird to say that. That's a weird thing to say.

Pretending like one person can go off and do whatever they want and it won’t effect the whole is how we get people like Trump.

This is my exact argument against billionaires. They are acting alone, making these sweeping decisions by themselves.

The money is gone. It isn’t coming back.

Disagree. It's never too late to get the money back, you just need politicians that are willing to take the initiative to go after it. Currently I don't see any, so I continue to say things that I hope will help focus people and bring attention to continue advocating for these policies.

I will concede that there are very few (read: nearly none)

K. Why we arguing? No good billionaires.

we should praise efforts like that so that they might continue. What’s the next billionaire gonna do when they try to give their money away and see that “All Gates got was vitriol and death wishes.”

Charity is not something you do for praise. I'm sorry the billionaires are so thin-skinned my insults would hurt them.

but I think we should agree that the money finally leaving the 1% to help the remaining 99% is a good step.

If I meet you on the street and beat you up and steal your wallet, then donate it to a local homeless shelter, are you gonna be mad at me? It was a good cause, bro, why you mad? It's in the hands of people who need it more now. I admit the analogy is a bit strained, but that's only because the means by which the billionaire class have gotten and maintained their wealth is more obtuse. Obscuring those means is how they continue to operate as they do.

I don't want to argue with you, I feel like your heart is in the right place and you are coming from a place of unity. But billionaires stand so far outside any sort of class consciousness with the likes of us. There is no point, no good that comes from defending billionaires for anything they do, they should not exist and the longer they continue to the more of a blight on the rest of humanity and the literal ecosystem of the world is at risk.

See so many other responses in this topic about how this is just PR, the money is being used to push AI solutions, the amount of wealth spent not really leaving Gates' control because it's being shuffled through different orgs, etc.

Windows 8 was actually pretty decent and had some good improvements under the hood. It handled dual monitor setups waaay better than 7 ever did, I don't know if people remember how rough the support was for a lot of these modern amenities we now take for granted.

In typical Microsoft fashion, 8's biggest sin was simply not letting people customize the GUI to their workflows and forcing that damned full screen Start menu. Once they shrunk the tiles to create 10's Start menu it became my favorite, so of course they trashed it for 11's generic look. Been using KDE now and it's near perfect.

I liked it better than Windows Me

Doesn't matter, Bill Gates is guilty of every bad thing that Microsoft ever did and I even heard he modelled clippy after Jeffrey Epstein.

That can still be used to leverage loans, and is still very much a form of power, just like his on hand cash is.