Oscar Bazaldua
Skulls in the StarsI miss the naive old days when Bill Gates was the worst billionaire we could imagine
la bibliotequetress@drskyskull Oooooo remember Leona Helmsley?!
Alexey Merz@drskyskull We already had Richard Mellon Scaife, John D. Rockefeller et al. Gates was never the worst we could imagine.
Liminal witch 🧙♀️ Sarah@merz @drskyskull as a former kid growing up in Europe in 90s, Gates was the worst billionaire/rich person I could imagine at that time.
Erick GS@merz @drskyskull but if I remember correctly, many believed Gates to be the Antichrist.
@erick_gs @drskyskull Sure, but Stallman is a jerk. 😂
Dr Lee A. Christie@drskyskull Remember that time he bundled a first-party web browser with an operating system! *shakes fist*
Exactly like John D. Rockefeller murdering the spouses and children of striking workers.
@drskyskull @0x1ac Not sure why you're calling it rage posting ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Just don't think that Gates was at any point the worst billionaire we could imagine.
Resuna@0x1ac @drskyskull The problem was when he created a whole new malware attack surface and accompanying viral ecosystem in an attempt to bypass his agreement with the USDoJ to not bundle software (including a web browser) with the OS.
sabik@0x1ac
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Or that time he convinced Oxford to license the COVID vaccine exclusively rather than releasing it for the public good
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Or that time he convinced Oxford to license the COVID vaccine exclusively rather than releasing it for the public good
Ryan Ford@drskyskull "He's disgusting! He's monopolizing software! He's killing Apple!" oh how quaint by today's standards.
Firecracker Lizzy 💣💥@drskyskull sort of like back when we thought Dubya was the worst president ever. 🙄
Martin Vermeer FCD@drskyskull Ah, Billgatus of Borg. And Micro$oft.
One reason why we remember him better than he deserves is perhaps that he retired a while ago. And also Microsoft has to actually compete nowadays.
One reason why we remember him better than he deserves is perhaps that he retired a while ago. And also Microsoft has to actually compete nowadays.
Yohannon@drskyskull I wrote a column for a Mac magazine in the late nineties and once got hate mail for a piece chiding people for equating Bill Gates with Hitler.
I wish that was a joke.
My regret is I can’t point out #FelonMusk to each and every one of those pants wetting hyperbolic Apple fan boys personally.🤦🏻♂️
I wish that was a joke.
My regret is I can’t point out #FelonMusk to each and every one of those pants wetting hyperbolic Apple fan boys personally.🤦🏻♂️
🇳🇱🇪🇺Jeroen🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦@drskyskull Or Bush Jr. the worst president.
@jeroen94704 And to be sure, he definitely falls well below the minimum standard of 'acceptable.' But somehow manages to not be 'worst.'
nigel kersten@drskyskull there was always Murdoch
Pat@drskyskull 😂 😂 Touché. Game, set, match .
Valheru@drskyskull Good times....
Peter Butler@drskyskull And there weren't a million fanboys supporting him ... I think about that a lot. BG had some supporters, but nothing like the red-pilled rubes of today.
What changed to make people like billionaires?
erichhugo@drskyskull steve jobs
Elder1@drskyskull This house has too many WinOp OS Versions, now 11 is a task to fix in my garage
ZZ Bottom@drskyskull Indeed; Now he looks like a angel.
Don Marti@drskyskull be patient, he's buying up farmland for some reason, could still get back on the leaderboard
Christopher Walker@drskyskull FWIW I think this joke is on point and I don’t think all jokes necessarily have to be 100% historically accurate. Moreover I don’t think billionaire philanthropy, even when genuinely done for altruistic purposes, is enough to overcome the predatory practices that are necessary to make one be a billionaire in the first place. I hope I’m not fanning a flame war but I think your toot was good. 😁
podo@drskyskull There really cant be much worse than a billionaire scheming to make maximum profits with Big Pharma from the poorest nations in the world ! Musk is def an idiot, but it might be a while before he can catch up to that level of sinister !
Dr. Rob cycles@drskyskull The real irony there is how many lives his Foundation has directly saved
JamesNeilMeece@drskyskull I think its weird that people who think hating groups is bad also think hating all billionaires is ok. /shrug
barbiedow@drskyskull oh I totally agree.
aquinas_0@drskyskull I remember back in the late nineties getting in an argument about who was worse Ellison or Gates. Ellison, I think, continues to win :D
Kethry@drskyskull right? We hated him for taking over competing tech; Monopolizing the pc market; And having zero interest in philanthropy (but at least he was honest about it). Now he looks great by comparison.
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴@drskyskull
Hear, hear! 😀
Hear, hear! 😀
ニルス・スキニール@drskyskull There were always the Murdochs.......
Fábio Costa 🐇🕐🎩☕@drskyskull and... TBH... He was mostly harmless. The new kids in the block would make the robber barons proud or full of shame
Mary Olivia@drskyskull Didn't he actively lobby to keep the COVID-19 vaccine under patent? If the administration had listened to him I feel like that would've put him at Still Worse Than The Others given the amount of death cause by lack of vaccine availability
@amalgamary Yeah, I mean all these billionaires are pretty horrible in their own way, but in the early 00's most of us only had experience with them trying to monopolize their markets, not start fascist dictatorships.
Ralf Süss@drskyskull @amalgamary there is at least a good one, Sir Richard Branson. Never heard anything bad of him. *duck*
Simon Walters@drskyskull I'd like to own up to once saying that EM was the only billionaire I followed and trusted :( I'm VERY VERY sorry :( #LongLiveBill
Michael Stanclift@drskyskull yeah just bundling browsers and selling office supplies, eradicating malaria.
Oldmeanroy@drskyskull boy ain't it the truth!
Remember when he was the villian for shooting for a monopoly? Pissed everyone off when he killed Netscape.
Took 20-30 years before the new browsers caught up to some of the features.
Then the W3C folks set a std. (But u$oft never complied)
Remember when he was the villian for shooting for a monopoly? Pissed everyone off when he killed Netscape.
Took 20-30 years before the new browsers caught up to some of the features.
Then the W3C folks set a std. (But u$oft never complied)
Bernard Tyers@drskyskull hah. This made me literally lol.
You are 100% correct tho'. And look at ole Billy now....
Anarko Trafikante@drskyskull and now it's gotten to the point were we have a bourgeois prick like Musk who is even worse AND has a dumbass cultish army of dweebs endlessly defending him. sad times indeed.
CautionWIP 🎃+🇨🇦+🏳️🌈= 
@drskyskull remember when this was embarrassing to watch?
Hughster@drskyskull And Bush was the worst President we could imagine...
Dave Lane 
🇳🇿@drskyskull and he hasn't got any better...
Half Cocked Law
Matthew Rigdon@drskyskull Gen X grew up in an enlightened age when billionaires didn't HAVE to be Nazis. They could choose to be silently.
Now the richest one of us has become a Nazi.
Arunmozhi@drskyskull He still is IMO. Sabotaging a pandemic response by scuttling open vaccine efforts and lobbying for companies still ranks higher than a rando buying the shitposting site.
@drskyskull I am taking back whatever I said about BillG in the past. We should even do this for Zuckerberg.
Ville Saarenketo@drskyskull And George W. Bush was the worst president.
Brian Clark@drskyskull I was just thinking about this the other day. Remember when he got a pie in the face?
David@drskyskull I still remember the good old days when I used to argue with people why Bill Joy was better than Bill Gates.
Emmajuned@drskyskull this also implies that the current billionaires might only seem as bad as Bill Gates does now in the future…
xs4me2@drskyskull
Current ones are pure evil…
Current ones are pure evil…
BigsmiffyWhen was he ever the *worst*
He went from nerdy and non philanthropic to nerdy, philanthropic, but a bit of a tool
There’s a few Russian slave trader, gun runners, murderers that surely are worse?