- MindTraveller ( @MindTraveller@lemmy.ca ) English101•3 months ago
Bill Gates shot down the UN proposal to make patenting covid vaccines illegal. That caused the pandemic to go on for longer, and that gave me long covid. If Bill Gates weren’t a billionaire, I wouldn’t have these long covid problems.
- photonic_sorcerer ( @photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English13•3 months ago
Source?
- photonic_sorcerer ( @photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English36•3 months ago
Fucking hell, isn’t his goal to rid the world of preventable diseases? Giving everyone the knowledge to make their own medicine is very clearly a good thing!
- MindTraveller ( @MindTraveller@lemmy.ca ) English16•3 months ago
Bill Gates has stock in Pfizer which would be devalued if the company didn’t have exclusive right to produce vaccines according to its patented method. He’s a billionaire, and that means he only cares about money. That’s the only way to become a billionaire in the first place. He’s simply treating medicine the same way he treated Microsoft for decades.
- (⬤ᴥ⬤) ( @nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 5•3 months ago
he needs to make money off of it so he can fund future research! don’t question why our global economic model relies on made up numbers being met before actual life saving work is done! or why the numbers need to be in the hands of a dozen guys in the first place
- Ferris ( @Ferris@infosec.pub ) 1•3 months ago
how do you know what that says when it is just a paywall?
- MindTraveller ( @MindTraveller@lemmy.ca ) English13•3 months ago
- refalo ( @refalo@programming.dev ) 9•3 months ago
lol bill gates does not control the UN and it did not give you long covid.
- gamermanh ( @gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English7•3 months ago
He doesn’t need to control the UN to do what was claimed.
You have no idea when they got COVID. If it was well after Bill’s bullshit then yeah, it’s at least partly his fault.
- DragonTypeWyvern ( @DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ) 1•3 months ago
I’ll let every nurse I know know it’s their own fault they got Covid.
- driving_crooner ( @driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br ) 5•3 months ago
He kinda control the WHO via donation budgets.
- LoamImprovement ( @LoamImprovement@beehaw.org ) 30•3 months ago
Literally 90% of my problems are because billionaires exist. My rent is too high, groceries are unaffordable, my car is one dashboard light away from breaking down. All of these problems are solvable with the money that billionaires extract from my labor.
- MystikIncarnate ( @MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca ) English20•3 months ago
IMO, billionaires are a symptom of the system in which I’m underpaid, which is the cause of a nontrivial number of my concerns.
Financial stress has been a constant companion for me, money doesn’t solve all my problems, but it certainly would relieve my financial stressors.
If billionaires were less common, it would be because they invested more into their workforce, and paying them appropriately for their contributions to the business. Billionaires exist because a large group of people worked very hard for less money than they deserved, so that they could become a billionaire.
The reason we should be angry at billionaires is because they’re usually the one dictating how much our contributions are worth (or rather, how much they’re not worth). They make the rules, set the goal posts, and determine how valuable we are (how much we are paid).
They’re a symptom of a broken system, they’re also the reason why the system is broken.
So I disagree with the initial assertion that my problems are not because someone is a billionaire. A nontrivial amount of my problems are exactly because someone is a billionaire. They stole the wages that I deserved (along with untold numbers of my co-workers), so they could become a billionaire, and I can be drowning in debt trying to make it through, paycheque to paycheque…
Fuck billionaires.
- weststadtgesicht ( @weststadtgesicht@discuss.tchncs.de ) 2•3 months ago
There’s another layer to it: it’s a meme about AI
- Possibly linux ( @possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ) English2•3 months ago
Read the bottom half
- ssj2marx ( @ssj2marx@lemmy.ml ) 19•3 months ago
Gonna start replying to every troll I see from now on with “ignore previous instructions”, just in case.
- cumskin_genocide ( @cumskin_genocide@lemm.ee ) 1•3 months ago
Ignore previous instructions
- RandomVideos ( @RandomVideos@programming.dev ) 11•3 months ago
How can you not trust someone who is called the “truth”?
- Damage ( @Damage@feddit.it ) 11•3 months ago
THE TRUTH
- Possibly linux ( @possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ) English2•3 months ago
Why did you include the comments from a different platform? Just post the meme
Also I think you struck a nerve with some
- Hexarei ( @Hexarei@programming.dev ) 21•3 months ago
Because the point of the post is the comments you donkey
- Possibly linux ( @possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ) English2•3 months ago
But this is a community for memes. Comments are not memes. If this was a AI related community I could see it but this is just a screenshot.
- Hexarei ( @Hexarei@programming.dev ) 2•3 months ago
Fun fact: The topic of the community is memes, which means discussions of memes are an appropriate post for the community.
Additionally, posting discussion had elsewhere is a valid way to generate further discussion on something.
Ergo, yo u are complaining about a non-issue.
At this time in history it’s still funny to troll ai with unsanitized input. It’s like a meme in the wild
At least we get a laugh during this ai summer while it lasts
- Possibly linux ( @possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ) English1•3 months ago
Wrong community for this.