I binged this yesterday. I didn't particularly enjoy the way they mixed Gate's early story with his current endeavours with the foundation, but all in all it's still interesting enough.
Inside Bill’s Brain
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#12Maybe this is unfair, but I hope they at least touch on the halloween documents and the antitrust suite. Anything that touches on microsoft's history should at least mention the anti-competitive practices they used to cripple competition.
From my understanding, the documentary is about what Bill Gates is doing, and what inspired him.
IMHO his cutthroat tactics leading Microsoft are already well documented and have nothing to do with the great work he’s doing now.
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#13It's sad that there is an extremely interesting documentary that could be done about Bill Gates, but all we get is his propaganda. Gates is turning into a Soros like figure, and there are all sorts of interesting and controversial wrinkles in the story of the man. Even just looking at the story of Gates's influence at Vox would be interesting, without even trying to make hay of his relationship with Stephen Pinker. A…
Will you guys please stop with the Soros bashing? There's literally no basis for all the BS being spewed about a self-made man like that.
Calling for a more nuanced rendering of someone’s character isn’t “bashing”, nor does being a “self-made” man disqualify one from criticism.
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#14It's sad that there is an extremely interesting documentary that could be done about Bill Gates, but all we get is his propaganda. Gates is turning into a Soros like figure, and there are all sorts of interesting and controversial wrinkles in the story of the man. Even just looking at the story of Gates's influence at Vox would be interesting, without even trying to make hay of his relationship with Stephen Pinker. A…
Will you guys please stop with the Soros bashing? There's literally no basis for all the BS being spewed about a self-made man like that.
If you think about it, the concept of self-made man is a bit weird. Every man comes at least from a woman who carried him for about 9 months. Even if she abandoned him at birth, he must have been taken care of by some people who taught him how to speak, helped him with his first steps, etc. Not to mention the roads he drove on, the food he ate, the knowledge he learned, etc. This concept is problematic in that it negates the fundamentally social nature of humanity. In fact, there have been documented cases of real self-made men in history, but it wasn't particularly pretty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_child
Re: Inside Bill’s Brain
#15Maybe this is unfair, but I hope they at least touch on the halloween documents and the antitrust suite. Anything that touches on microsoft's history should at least mention the anti-competitive practices they used to cripple competition.
From my understanding, the documentary is about what Bill Gates is doing, and what inspired him. IMHO his cutthroat tactics leading Microsoft are already well documented and have nothing to do with the great work he’s doing now.
"Of course, no amount of charity in spending such fortunes in any way compensates for misconduct in making them."
https://www.infoplease.com/history-and-government/famous-pre...
Re: Inside Bill’s Brain
#16Maybe this is unfair, but I hope they at least touch on the halloween documents and the antitrust suite. Anything that touches on microsoft's history should at least mention the anti-competitive practices they used to cripple competition.
From my understanding, the documentary is about what Bill Gates is doing, and what inspired him. IMHO his cutthroat tactics leading Microsoft are already well documented and have nothing to do with the great work he’s doing now.
Without entering the debate regarding whether Gates foundation does more good than damage, it seems a bit of a stretch to say that this is unrelated to his earlier business practices. It's fair to imagine that those practices have contributed to put him in a situation where he can do what he does now.
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#17I tried to watch it, but it just felt like a 'Bill Gates' public profile PR piece. Basically just espousing how great Bill and his family are and were at all points in history.
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#18I tried to watch it, but it just felt like a 'Bill Gates' public profile PR piece. Basically just espousing how great Bill and his family are and were at all points in history.
I regularly get downvoted for pointing out that Saint Bill the Philanthropist refuses to acknowledge all the shitty behavior and the damage he left behind to earn him that fortune in the first place.
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#19Maybe this is unfair, but I hope they at least touch on the halloween documents and the antitrust suite. Anything that touches on microsoft's history should at least mention the anti-competitive practices they used to cripple competition.
Looks like aspects of it might be mentioned https://youtu.be/aCv29JKmHNY?t=45
Re: Inside Bill’s Brain
#20It's sad that there is an extremely interesting documentary that could be done about Bill Gates, but all we get is his propaganda. Gates is turning into a Soros like figure, and there are all sorts of interesting and controversial wrinkles in the story of the man. Even just looking at the story of Gates's influence at Vox would be interesting, without even trying to make hay of his relationship with Stephen Pinker. A…
> Gates is turning into a Soros like figure,
You say that as if it is a bad thing.