Reply #2: Sure. We need to remember one thing: [View All]

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The vast majority of Bill Gates' wealth is theoretical, and not real. It's tied up in hundreds of millions of shares of the company he started. If Microsoft goes belly up, Gates loses 60 billion bucks.

And since he started the company, in my opinion, he's entitled to whatever share of that company he owns.

And Gates HAS given away billions of dollars. I know many won't think he's a decent human being until he's given it all away and is living on the street as an AIDS-riddled wino, but I say, he, he took a risk starting a company, and managed to make it work.

No one is starving because Gates owns stock in Microsoft.

Now, if he were someone like Dick Cheney, who manages to get the government to give his company no-bid contracts and has his company then also bilk the government out of billions more through chicanery, theft, and lying, then that's different.

But there is the part of me that has suffered through probably thousands of blue screens of death, and that part says no, he doesn't deserve it, because the product he sells is fucking shit.