• Radiant_sir_radiant@beehaw.org
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    21 hours ago

    All cynicism aside, so would I, probably. What good is immense wealth if you don’t use it as a means to gain happiness?
    As much as it pains me to say this as a decades-long passionate M$ hater, Bill Gates is doing something right there.

    But you’re right about one thing of course …

    These are not normal people. It’s never enough for them.

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      21 hours ago

      IMHO Melinda changed Gates’s view on the world. As much as her desktop idea was nightmare fuel, they did create a foundation, had some kids together, and that let Gates grow as a person away from Ballmer’s “Developers, Developers, Developers!” culture.