Billionaires

>but muh philanthropy
Even sans the exploitative nature of capitalism, we need to ask ourselves why it’s ok for billionaires to decide where our society’s wealth goes.

What makes the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation qualified to decide how to distribute whatever percentage of our collective wealth? What voice do those of us who generated it (and I mean from those of us who built the roads and laid the first bricks of the city of Seattle/Redmond to the most recently christened Microsoft MVP) have in its distribution?

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Why should government officials decide where the money goes?

>Commies aren't just envious loser trying to force daddy gov to steal for the..

They should ask liberals how much it costs a business to hire someone in addition to their salary.

Bill had a major hand in inventing the coding language and OS that the entire world runs on.

Shut your mouth.

so they're about $6 a box? maybe $8? how far off could gates possibly be?

so not very off, he assumed they'd be worth slightly over a dollar per piece. clearly he doesn't realize that processed food is absolutely fucking repulsive

True. We also thank the guy who sold DOS for like 60 bucks and Xerox from which he and Jobs took ideas. You know, like the windows their OS had.

He didnt.

It is not about the wealth distribution, it is about the quality of life of the people. If you have the highest quality of life on the planet, but feel the need to bitch about how you were given that quality of life, I would suggest you fuck on off somewhere better.

>and Xerox from which he and Jobs took ideas
You mean the whole concept of the graphical user interface, which they basically stole.

Gui was a mistake and still is a mistake.

15 totinos are like 2 dollars

>we need to ask ourselves why it’s ok for billionaires to decide where our society’s wealth goes
>we need to ask ourselves why it's ok for consumers to decide what products are profitable
>we need to ask ourselves why it's ok for farmers to decide what crops get grown
>we need to ask ourselves why it's ok for generals to decide what maneuvers are taken

Ellen has to have over 500 million easy

Unless you eat that frozen shit food why would you know the cost of it?

The board members at Xerox had no idea what they had their hands on. It's kind of like how Kodak thought nothing could disrupt the status quo.

Depending on the store and sales, they can be expensive. I got a bag of 90 for $5.50 at Walmart, while those boxes are $1,50 or $2.
Same with Hot Pockets, a 12 pack could be on sale for $8 while 2 packs are $2.

>but them and celebrities should have a huge hand in making/shaping our policies

I don't even know how much that shit is. Processed shit is so bad for you

If you make AT LEAST $32,400 USD per year, congratulations. You are part of the 1% richest people on the planet!!

He guessed $150

Funny it's it's celebrities and Whole Food Liberals thinking fast food is cheaper than buying your own food.
Remember that bag of limes with welfare picture?

Do you think fast food is cheaper than buying food at a grocery store?

That's not the same as knowing how much bread or a bag of chips cost. Jesus you'd bend over backwards for someone who invented/patented the zika virus in the 80s

No one cares or they only compare Western countries, same with terrorism when people bring up Muslim bans.

I think making it yourself is cheaper and healthier

yeah he's obviously just making a show then, nobody would think that would cost $150

Gates wasn't always super rich so at some point I'm assuming he actually bought his own food

Bread varies, $1 to $4

I don't think so. Chicken breast, rice, oats, eggs and everything are all pretty cheap

How is that any different from marxists saying that are not allowed to have an opinion because you are a white male?

let's beat these guys half to death with their own metric tons of money.
i'm willing to bet that's a fetish for them.
and then put that money into cleaning these reactionaries' fucking rooms for christ's sake.
maybe we could buy Sup Forums some girlfriends too, if we have enough money left over

Bill doesn't know exactly how much pizza rolls cost, and I don't know exactly how much billionaire things like medieval castles in Europe, nuclear powered yachts and private jets cost, so it kind of evens out.

What is she trying to prove?

if bill gat so rich y windows and office so expensive?

Didn't he rebrand some software for his big break?

If you can afford that kind of easy to cook, junk food, then you are not really poor

Precisely because of that.

He rich because dem things expensive made him rich.

>Bill had a major hand in inventing the coding language the entire world runs on

> What makes Bill and Melinda Gates qualified to determine how their OWN WEALTH that THEY EARNED is distributed?

There, I fixed it for you.
To be fair, instead of their charity foundation they could have bought helicopters to drop commies out of, so maybe it is being mis-spent.

>everyday groceries
>disgusting processed garbage
jesus christ, no wonder americans are fat as shit

That's not the point, the point of not knowing the general cost of bread is to show how out of touch you are with the general population financially, mentally and most likely socially.

Also unless it's bakery bread or 'super organic 128 grain whole wheat' no bread costs $4 each

What is considered expensive? Windows is basically free when buying any computer.I do think the Office subscription is shit.

>>bill gates invented C/C++
wow, Sup Forumstards really are fucking dense

he paid like $50,000 for Dos in 1980's money which would have paid off a house that would be worth millions now

It really fucking pisses me off that you need a yearly subscription to use office and not just a 1 time price

>buying prebuilts

Those all have large variance in price. Like asking the price of a new car.
Thinking pizza wrapped in dough cost 10x more than buying a pizza is retarded.

How do I build a gaming laptop on my own?

oy vey goy you want to OWN your software???/ like hitler owned the jews????

this shit makes me so fucking mad. I watched his stupid over population video the other day.

youtube.com/watch?v=obRG-2jurz0

he will fucking doom the earth into becoming a nigger shit hole with his stupid virtuous incompetence

BTFO you socialist fuck.

ask that black kid in london

>gaming laptop

Better to download older versions.

Frozen burrito packs are actually a good calorie for price. Bad for you but bretty good.

he's talking about BASIC you fucking idiot

didn't that nigger basically feed africa for decades?
I don't care how rich you are, the rope is still waiting

>pizza rolls
He probably watches what he eats and buys healthy, real food. Why should he know the cost of shit like Totinos? He did guess the price of floss correctly iirc.

This. People love to dick ride billionaires when they're #withher, so what fucking gives?

$20

It's from Ellen.

>bill gates invented DOS and C++
>he totally didn't steal ideas and buy his way to the top or mistreat any of his employees, like gayben
>lol, owned
wut

Are you trying to piss off the internet? I play on an Asus gaming laptop and I know never to bring it up.

They can see what's coming, they know they'll be hanging from lampposts if they don't keep the publics' favor, we can all feel it in the air and we're all just waiting for something to set it all off, most people can't quite put their finger on the feeling but they feel it too
So what do they do? Try to humanize themselves, let the public know that "hey we're just like you guys! When it all collapses remember we're people too!"
They're afraid of the biggest equalizer of all, total societal collapse
Today he's a god, tomorrow he could be human

because of GPU prices you don't save any money building your own anymore. A $1500 MSI pc costs $1800 to build, plus the cost of windows and whatever other programs you need, and you end up with a shit case with bad cooling to boot

Prebuilt is the way to go right now. At the risk of sounding like an MSI shill I'm on an MSI "gaming laptop" right now (apache) and it is really good. Getting a PC soon though just to have a home anchor and this for work.

"Socialists don't care about the poor, they just hate the rich." - George Orwell

>paying for microsoft office.

“A Socialist United States of Europe seems to me the only worth-while political objective today”
-George Orwell

What normal person is supposed to remember how much junk food costs? I used to keep track of food prices and promotions when I was a student and I still do for some products (meat, wine), but otherwise I don't pay much attention. If I want to buy a frozen pizza which I do once in a few months, I just get the one that looks good. It would be somewhere in the range 1-10 Euro, why would I care how much exactly?

Also, why multiple Bill Gates threads all of a sudden today? Did he suddenly decide to go into politics?

Dude, use OpenOffice. It's compatible with everything and completely free and open source.

>separate stratosphere
>not understanding what the word even relates to
>expressing jealousy of competence by linking an article
>mfw

>just download programs written for le mutual aid
he clearly spend his free time reading works by young hegelians like stirner, bakunin, and marx

> Windows is basically included in the price when buying any computer

FTFY.

It's all relative. Some will say it's inexpensive compared to the opportunities it gives you, while commies will say 'why should anyone ever own a billion dollars'

That's a reasonable guess for someone who's never bought garbage tier food

Most people only know laptops which are admittedly a much harder build
Desktops are foreign to most people.

You can also donate to them if you want, it's not like they don't have ways for you to support the software. Better than paying a subscription for a word processor.

How times have changed lol.

The version for home use you can still buy normally. At least here in Europe.

Libreoffice is a descendant of StarOffice bought by Sun while it was still alive. There's nothing about le mutual aid in it.

Remember when you use to buy new shit for your desktop and just boost it every few years?
Laptops are frickin disposable

>dedicate some work hours to further assist mutual aid
sounds good to me

He answered 3/5 of the queries within the dollar. Total bullshit.

kek that's stupid

A 1200-1400 dollar laptop will keep you on high settings for 4 years

Lol remember who won the Spanish Civil War?

>libreoffice = openoffice = commercial program it's derived from
>THEREFORE 100% NOT MUTUAL AID
good, Sup Forums just keep avoiding Sup Forums, lest you learn anything substantial to the things you say

>A 1200-1400 dollar laptop will keep you on high settings for 4 years
Not necessarily
Depends on the build
a 1200 Apple laptop is essentially a 500 laptop for anyone else

It's implied when I say gaming laptop I am not talking about crapple.

you mean because the republican movement was busy disarming the anarchists instead helping to derrocar la reaccion?

no he fucking stole it, that guy who made dos tried suing him in court for millions but the court didnt buy it, msdos was the same as fucking dos.

Ya didn't say gaming laptop fag
also
>Gaming laptop?
That's gay
Should just get a much better desktop at 1/3 the cost

Lol no.I looked this shit up, it costs 1500 pounds in the UK, comes with a Skylake CPU and completely unknown shit inside worth around 1200. For 1500 you won't get a radically different spec, but you'll at least have a choice and will know what you're paying for.

WHY DONT YOU SHOP AT MY GROCERY STORE!

YOUR THE ONE THAT MADE THIS PRODUCT CAPITALIST PIG!

> What makes the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation qualified to decide how to distribute whatever percentage of our collective wealth?
What makes you or the communist party qualified? Do you think everyone would have know how to and decided to make a computer with common standards that make them function together?
> and I mean from those of us who built the roads and laid the first bricks of the city of Seattle/Redmond
That was a heavy brick. I remember it well comrade. Where is my as yet uninvented tech!

i mean i guess i should have realized that it's not really as if "GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE" actually means anything to those kropotkinites on Sup Forums

man, I like your green frog picture, the glasses are rlly cool

>What makes the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation qualified to decide how to distribute whatever percentage of our collective wealth?
the fcat that people gave them the money

My mistake. When I say high settings I am talking about laptops with higher end graphics cards.

>Why do billionaires decide how their money is spent?
Does it matter how much money someone has? If you have over $X, you're no longer in charge of your own finances? This is some dumb shit, OP. 5/10 creative bait.

What are you, retarded?
He isn't deciding where public money is being invested. He's deciding where to invest his owm money. So unless you're advocating for seizing his assets forcefully he's completely jusitifed in spending his money as he chooses.

>using Microsoft Office
WHY?

honestly this.
giving money to local free associations and cooperatives is a better idea than to businesses and charities that transport boatloads of money exploited from workers' wages and manipulated from consumers' savings directly overseas.
>tfw capis are laughing at us, "SUCKERS! THEY STILL KEEP GIVING US MONEY."

Not even poor people know how much it costs. Don't you watch the Price is Right?