I remember when I was growing up, tech industry has so many people that were admirable, and you wanted to aspire to be in life. Bill Gates, founders of Google Larry Page, Sergey brin, Steve Jobs (wasnā€™t perfect but on a surface level, he was still at least a pretty decent guy), basically everyone involved in gaming from Xbox to PlayStation and so on, Tom from MySpaceā€¦ So many admirable people who were actually really greatā€¦

Now, people are just trash. Look at Mark Zuckerberg who leads Facebook. Dude is a lizard man, anytime you think he has shown some character growth he does something truly horrible and illegal that he should be thrown in prison for. For example, heā€™s been buying up properties in Hawaii and basically stealing them from the locals. Heā€™s basically committing human rights violations by violating the culture of Hawaiian natives and their land deeds that are passed down from generation to generation. He has been systematically stealing them and building a wall on Hawaii, basically a f*cking colonizer. Thatā€™s what the guy is. I thought he was a good upstanding person until I learned all these things about him

Current CEO of Google is peak dirtbag. Dude has no interest in the company or itā€™s success at all, his only concern is patting his pockets while he is there as CEO, and appeasing the shareholders. He has zero interest in helping or making anyoneā€™s life pleasant at the company. Truly a dirtbag in every way.

Current CEO of Home Depot, which I now consider a tech company because they have moved out of retail and into the online space and they are rapidly restructuring their entire business around online sales, that dude is a total piece of work conservative racist. I remember working for this company, This dudeā€™s entire focus is eliminating as many people as feasibly possible from working in the store, making their life living heck, does not see people as human beings at all. Just wants to eliminate anyone and everyone they possibly can, think they are a slave labor force

Elon musk, we all know about him, donā€™t need to really say much. Every time you think heā€™s doing something good for society, he proves you wrong And does the worst thing he can possibly do in that situation. Itā€™s like heā€™s specifically trying to make the world the worst place possible everyday

Like, damn. What the heck happened to the world? You know? I thought the tech industry was supposed to be filled with these brilliant genius people who are really good for the worldā€¦

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Bill Gates was a huge piece of shit in his heyday, rivalling the Zuckerberg and Musks of today,

Bill Gates was a ruthless businessman destroying competition but as far as I know he didnā€™t support fascists or facilitate pogroms.

Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter has done far more harm to our societies than whatever shady tactics Bill Gates used.

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Not to take away from Zuckerberg, Musk, and the less-known people in tech like Thiel, but Bill Gates was and is a huge piece of shit who harmed more than just his competitors. Among other things he convinced the world that we need IP and patents for covid vaccines instead of sharing them freely, which alone cost countless lives around the world. I donā€™t even want to know what other ills his ā€œphilanthropyā€ has and will cause. https://newrepublic.com/article/162000/bill-gates-impeded-global-access-covid-vaccines

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Gates and Jobs both are responsible for consumer based computing. Proprietary software lynched what should have been a global birth of inventive software engineers.

The crap that Zuck shills had its groundwork laid by those two.

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Proprietary software lynched what should have been a global birth of inventive software engineers.

That actually happened. Just wasnā€™t perpetuated after 1995 or something.

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