Nah, just…make them work regular hours for a pay of an ordinary employee. They could take extra hours to earn more and demonstrate to everyone how to “work hard and earn big”. This will be cruelest punishment they can get.

Oh, and put them on a KPI and control their work productivity.

I appreciate your desire for more nuance, and I support it throughout discussions.

But the case of Bill Gates is fairly clear-cut. His philanthropy efforts are covering for shitty business practices and tax evasion.

This is one of the reasons why people are concerned about billionaire philanthropy in the first place. It creates a good image of a savior, while serving to reduce taxes and cover for malicious investments. We would be much, much better off taking this in form of taxes and actually allocating it for good.

Not winning a race to the bottom doesn’t make someone good or decent, though

Any any good person wouldn’t become a billionaire in the first place.

Even libertarians, who are on the exact opposite side economically, agree IP is garbage made and manipulated to enrich the few.

lemmy.today is federated both ways with pretty much all of Lemmy, from .world to tankie triad to beehaw