[freebeard]

This part?

...but he does a bad job of not looking like a monster...

Insofar as the island hopping, his ex-wife said it didn't help their marriage. I got to wondering if she is using the proceeds with evil intent the way Lauren Jobs and Bezos' ex-wife, MacKenzie Scott, have.

8 Takeaways From Bill Gates' AMA: Banning Billionaires, His Friendship With Warren Buffett, and Why He Is Buying So Much Farmland
The Microsoft co-founder and co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation opened up to Reddit once again.

By Entrepreneur Staff
January 13, 2023
Bill Gates took to Reddit this week for his 11th Ask Me Anything (AMA), and over the course of the session, he answered questions about climate change, the ethics of being an extremely rich person, and some of the conspiracy theories revolving around his business practices.

I'll have to go ahead and disagree here.

if you ask me has he done anything ever in his life that would alarm me I would say probably
probably I don't know what it is but probably so I don't I'm not defending him of all
things I'm not telling you he's an angel not telling you he won't do anything to you tomorrow but at the moment it's hard

I know exactly what alarmed me --- he took the baby computer industry and perverted it to his own end, to be the richest dude in the World. Which World will never regain the Intellectual Property that was smothered in the crib.

He went from 'embrace. extend, extinguish' to providing a Central Registry as an attack vector so Windows was uniquely vulnerable to bad actors. Best money I ever made in my life was helping people pick up the pieces of their broken lives on the Norton Antivirus help line.