I’ve had this discussion before, some people still believe it. Another example of philanthropy abuse is how he stopped the Oxford vaccine from being given away as an open source vaccine, and insisted on it being licensed to one pharmaceutical firm instead. He succeeded in demanding that because his foundation has enough pull with universities because they received donations (with money that otherwise could’ve gone to taxes, which could’ve been used to fund universities directly).

And on his ‘private’ side, he’s heavily invested in pharma stocks, so you can do the math there. Millions of people in the global South died from COVID because Indian and South African firms were delayed by about a year before they could produce the vaccine.