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Cory Doctorow · 8w
Billionaires aren't just a danger when they're trying to make money, either. One of the arguments in favor of billionaires is that sometimes, the "good" billionaires take up charitable causes. But eve...
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He is one of the main reasons that poor communities around the country have been pressured to shutter their public schools and replace them with weakly regulated, extractive charters:

https://apnews.com/article/92dc914dd97c487a9b9aa4b006909a8c

This was a catastrophe. A single billionaire dilettante's cherished stupidity wrecked the educational chances of a generation of kids:

https://dissidentvoice.org/2026/03/free-market-charter-schools-wreak-havoc-in-michigan/

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Cory Doctorow · 8w
Gates was a prep-school kid, so it's weird for him to have forceful views about a public education system he never experienced. In reality, it's not so much that Gates has forceful views about *schools* - rather, he has forceful views about *teachers' unions*, which he wishes to see abolished. Gates...