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Who are some people in powerful positions or 1%ers that are genuinely good people? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 day ago by ReanuKeeves@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Good as far as we know until they get Cosby'd

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[–] christian@lemmy.ml 34 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

The Gates foundation explicitly lobbied against Oxford's initial plan to open source their covid vaccine. Gates' worship of intellectual propery law is responsible for the patent on the astrazeneca vaccine. The project was initially started under the hope that the third world being able to manufacture their own vaccines without owing royalties would be important in limiting the spread of covid.