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But he's also *not* Batman in that he's pretty quietly doing not-very-glamorous work that's having an impact. If that were the norm for billionaires that would be fine, but is it?
I mean, is that really where we're at? If you're going to eliminate polio and malaria, you'd better do it quietly, or some freelance thinkpiece wankoff will make fun of you for trying to be Batman?
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I struggle to fathom how much of a loser you'd have to be to even consider writing this piece, and to be immoral enough to actually do it is just straight-up beyond my imaginative capacity
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I leave it to Anna to be cordial and to stop tagging me if she doesn't want the bad cop to show up, but for my piece I have zero remaining tolerance for trust fund navel-gazers who have Serious Concerns about the people who aren't moving resources toward solutions the "right" way
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I see a really weird cultural shift toward the toxic assumption that *attempting something big* as an individual is fundamentally at odds with democracy, that individual heroism itself is a sort of social defection, and at the very least nobody should be rewarded for it. Bizarre
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