The silliness of using *Bill Gates* as an example of billionaires avoiding taxes. Bill Gates! Who has paid tens of billions of dollars in tax! And uses most of his own money to stop malaria in the developing world! And has probably saved more lives than anyone but Norman Borlaug! https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1260678597666275328

the thing is, there are loads of GOOD examples of billionaires not using their money well. But, you know, when they're freely donating it to good causes, maybe let them do that? Even praise it? Then they might do it more! https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/07/29/against-against-billionaire-philanthropy/

before I mute this thread, a few people saying she's not criticising Gates but other billionaires, which may be true; perhaps I'm being unfair. But still: criticise billionaires for being greedy when they're NOT giving lots of money to charity, I reckon https://xkcd.com/871/