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Gates didn’t lobby for tax cuts and austerity. https://fortune.com/2022/07/30/bill-gates-lobbied-joe-manchin-inflation-reduction-act-build-back-better-act-democrats/
Nor did Bezos: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56657596
Austerity hurts Amazon’s retail business, so the idea that Bezos would lobby for it is ludicrous.
Interesting that you bring up political and medical disinformation, which is something else Eich is known for: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/business/brave-brendan-eich-covid-19.html