Bill Gates, Worth Nearly $120 Billion, Advocates For Keeping Some Small Businesses Closed

[Maxirad]

Um, has Dr. Michael Osterholm suggested that bars and restaurants be shut down for the next “four to six months”? How about Dr. Anthony Fauci? Dr. Scott Gottlieb?

Bill Gates warns bars and restaurants will ‘sadly’ have to close for months due to the coronavirus - Washington Examiner

 

[ThinkingSapien]

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See this.

Bill Gates, Worth Nearly $120 Billion, Advocates For Keeping Some Small Businesses Closed World News

Did a search on Google and this is what came up - kind of tells it all.(Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.)

 

[gam197]

Three trillion more in printed money to try to solve the small business crisis and unemployment. More national debt and more to come.

The Great Reset.

Cities have no respect for private small businesses.

 

[gam197]

From the same minds that brought you the ‘The Great Replacement theory’.
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Sorry I did not mean that to go to you. I know you are on another forum.

 

[ThinkingSapien]

Three trillion more in printed money to try to solve the small business crisis and unemployment. More national debt and more to come.

Sounds like something that could be balanced with a tax code.

 

[gam197]

Well we do have a problem with wealth, zero interest on bonds and savings, a crushed middle class. Just print more and more money.

All authoritarian governments control wealth and freedom. and Bill Gates is a part of that government’s influence.

 

[gam197]

ThinkingSapien:

veryone , irrespective of income, is free to share their views on what actions may be beneficial to the country.

Yes, but their income level and what they say can be correlated in some instances. This is one of them.

In the early twentieth century, the progressive movement pushed legislation through to ‘protect consumers’. It was framed in a way to push the narrative of big business vs the little guy.

In reality many big businessmen helped push the legislation. As leftist historian with no love for markets Gabriel Kolko showed, in The Triumph of Conservatism , competition from new small businesses were harming the profits of the trusts established at the end of the 19th century. So, to limit competition and ensure monopoly profits, they promoted progressive legislation to tame competition and punish those entities who wouldn’t play by their corporate rules. Upton Sinclair, author of the Jungle, was merely a willing stooge to this line of thinking.

It could be argued the subsequent perversion of capitalism throughout the rest of the century along with massive accumulation of profit and power was the result of those and similar laws and movements. The irony is that leftists now bemoan the very thing their favored legislation helped to produce.

Long story short, I don’t care nor do I trust what Bill Gates has to say, nor do I think he has the best interest of the average American in mind. He’s an oligopolist profiteer.

Is that judgy? Perhaps. But fool me once…

I am not sure how many students are familiar with Upton Sinclair today. Much of this has been lost in modern education.

 

[RhodesianSon]

Upton Sinclair was a socialist writing a work of fiction to try and gin up support for labor laws.

 

[gam197]

Upton Sinclair was a socialist writing a work of fiction to try and gin up support for labor laws.

Do students today even read the book and understand what it was.? I don’t think it been read in the last 30-40 years in local high schools.

At one time it was standard reading.

 

[ThinkingSapien]

Do students today even read the book and understand what it was.?

The books students are assigned change by school district. Given that the volume of books that exists only increases over time, for any given book there is going to be more competition over time for that book to win out in the selection process. What is popular one year is not guaranteed to always be popular.