<story><title>Melinda Gates: Bill&apos;s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein led to end of marriage</title><url>https://boingboing.net/2022/03/03/melinda-french-gates-said-bills-relationship-with-jeffrey-epstein-led-to-the-end-of-their-marriage.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chirau</author><text>Would you have preferred that he didn&amp;#x27;t spend his gains on charity?&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Also, did Bill Gates steal anything? Manipulation and monopolies are fundamentally wrong, but they do not amount to stealing. IF they do, then the Carnegies and Rockefellers were &amp;#x27;stealing&amp;#x27; as well. Maybe, by your logic, we should take away all those libraries Carnegie built too?</text></item><item><author>ZeroGravitas</author><text>Glad I still hated him from when he tried to destroy the web, open source and various technical interoperability standards and free markets.&lt;p&gt;Seems a lot of people liked that his wife encouraged him to spend all his ill-gotten gains on charitable causes. I generally prefer people not to steal and undermine society in the first place.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>potamic</author><text>Warren Buffet&amp;#x27;s son had something interesting to say about this.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; As more lives and communities are destroyed by the system that creates vast amounts of wealth for the few, the more heroic it sounds to “give back.” It’s what I would call “conscience laundering” — feeling better about accumulating more than any one person could possibly need to live on by sprinkling a little around as an act of charity. But this just keeps the existing structure of inequality in place. The rich sleep better at night, while others get just enough to keep the pot from boiling over. Nearly every time someone feels better by doing good, on the other side of the world (or street), someone else is further locked into a system that will not allow the true flourishing of his or her nature or the opportunity to live a joyful and fulfilled life.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;27&amp;#x2F;opinion&amp;#x2F;the-charitable-industrial-complex.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;27&amp;#x2F;opinion&amp;#x2F;the-charitable-in...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Melinda Gates: Bill&apos;s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein led to end of marriage</title><url>https://boingboing.net/2022/03/03/melinda-french-gates-said-bills-relationship-with-jeffrey-epstein-led-to-the-end-of-their-marriage.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chirau</author><text>Would you have preferred that he didn&amp;#x27;t spend his gains on charity?&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Also, did Bill Gates steal anything? Manipulation and monopolies are fundamentally wrong, but they do not amount to stealing. IF they do, then the Carnegies and Rockefellers were &amp;#x27;stealing&amp;#x27; as well. Maybe, by your logic, we should take away all those libraries Carnegie built too?</text></item><item><author>ZeroGravitas</author><text>Glad I still hated him from when he tried to destroy the web, open source and various technical interoperability standards and free markets.&lt;p&gt;Seems a lot of people liked that his wife encouraged him to spend all his ill-gotten gains on charitable causes. I generally prefer people not to steal and undermine society in the first place.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alophawen</author><text>He literally said what he preferred:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; I generally prefer people not to steal and undermine society in the first place.</text></comment>