Goodreads Doesn't Have It, Data Migration: There's No Such Thing As a Free Gift, the Gates Foundation
"The contradiction inherent in slavery, that the humanity of the slave must necessarily be simultaneously denied and affirmed, recurs in a variety of dramatic and less dramatic guises in modern patriarchy. Contract demands that their womanhood be both denied and affirmed."
This book has showed me someone I didn't know much about and thought was just some white knighting computer guy has a real, underestimated streak of hostility and maleficence.
I only didn't give this four stars instead of five because there are clear parts where key details that could have really helped are left out and it's obvious. I can't respect that.
As I read this book, I was constantly reminded of this quote by Carole Pateman. Surrounding Bill Gates' Medina acres is a 34% pass rate for mathematics, a series of issues where women were completely stripped of justice at Microsoft (Pateman notes that the slave is always denoted with their powerlessness publically to mark the as such to prevent their escape), and some of the worst labor conditions I have ever seen in the United States (I have been exposed to 5 EEOC cases, 2 CJC cases, 2 DOH cases, and two LNI cases in the period of two years, as well as a failing attorney general--it bears all the marks of someone who wants to mark individuals with powerlessness). There are several cases where moving from stocks that relied heavily on unsustainable energy were allowed to persist if Bill Gates' foundation capitalized on it, stating that the economy was at stake. Here, the workers are not free from exploitability, including labor history such as attempting to use right-wing paramilitary to murder union strikers covertly. This is bridging on standards of slavery that even slave-apologists in the civil war wouldn't have touched--many denied they had the right to kill their slaves, in such a "genteel" act of "humanity" for the dearly "humane" slaveowning class.
What I begin to see is this slave-owner mentality. The use of NCLB to slash funds and then slash them again instead of support where failure means the LACK of energy not the NEED for punishment, is equivalent to a whip. It even ended in a suicide notable for a brown person, as is mentioned in this book. The "whipping" punitivity of NCLB and the "don't need em" rhetoric of the charter school when the public system fails to do the bidding of a self-elected emperor who can't even improve his own backyard (34% math fail rate is not acceptable) shows serious, serious issues with this man and his foundation.
In addition, his obsession with polio seems to have deep ties to the CIA as noted in this book. And even I heard loud and clear the lack of names and specifics that had to be let out by Linsey McGoey. That he picks black and brown countries to target for his vaccines that have NOTORIOUSLY led to vaccine-caused mutations due to over-vaccination speaks to underlying untreated mental issues for the vaccines. And that he then doesn't factor in the actual scientific evidence of the global south shows that he doesn't view the global south as the "real owners" of their bodies, akin to how slaveowners didn't see anything wrong with raping, sexualizing, or exploiting the bodies of their slaves as they didn't see any "real owner" they were dealing with. The multiple vaccines speaks to this issue latent.
In addition, changing obsessions, weird issues such as using Clinton to secure his Porsche needs, and using Foundation funds as lubricant for slimy deals that other people carried out from a position of plausible deniability is really painting a different picture of this man.
I was especially disturbed by the answer to my question as to why Bill Gates was buying up so much farmland. Linsey clearly shows that is to now continue his wealth for the ages in terms of his food patents. We already know he weaponizes his patents in Russia to silence NGOs very much aligned and sometimes directly working with the Kremlin in a widely published scientific paper on the matter. Now we can see how he is applying the spoils of patent capitalism to every potential sphere he can think of, including the most basic, food.
When we see Paypal CEOs also working at Palantir, we can also see that other things might be getting patented. Things to do with right-wing paramilitaries that kill Union strikers. Things to do with companies similar to Palantir. Whole methods of abusing the court system to silence unions and continue to violently violate the very people that provide this man with any money. Perhaps even "patents" of the court system itself, such as willful negligence by in-the-pocket Attorney Generals that only do their jobs at certain prices, and then only in exactly the way told, showing their will is not their own but that of a slave's just like everyone else's in this area.
And when we begin to see the scores surrounded by all this money, only a fool wouldn't begin to see..someone can do something, and they don't. Someone likes it that way. Someone who obsessively penetrates the bodies of those most vulnerable to the point their bodies can't expel the virus anymore due to mutations that kill little Indian children. Eight Indian girls dead due to over-vaccination because they didn't take these trials seriously. Because they didn't view them as fully human.
When you start putting it together, this book is horrifying. The patent-frenzy that Bill Gates stumbled upon and which gave him any fortune at all is the very link that could dethrone him. And he himself is the one revealing that when people can act like he does, we don't live in a state of social contract where justice is preserved with excellence to all who seek it. Social contract is a very fragile state that any massive social contract violation could bring crashing down, and any "real exchange" of patenting with it. In fact, the patent itself could be utterly destroyed by aggressive, malicious overuse by the right person.
You see Gates, if justice itself can be patented, we live in a state of nature. Where patents don't apply. And where the coffers of the entire self-elected empire are voided. Where injustice anywhere being a threat to justice everywhere is violently violated, multiple times, making a piggish mockery of the quote to the point it's hard to remember it amidst the covert institutional violence of this greedy programmer on all sides. Until, suddenly, the perpetrator looks up and realizes that they just destroyed the very ephemeral superstate that was social contract by their greed to patent anything in sight. Including justice itself.
Ironically, such a state of nature is the very last place I think Bill Gates would survive.
Typical corporate welfarist through the Foundation model.
He is clearly out of control in his aggression, unable to stop his cycles of retaliation with a benevolent facade. His NCLB policies proved that to us.
This is clearly deep down a very angry man with some serious repressed issues.
Truly horrifying.