Bill Gates is trash
The Epstein class is the lowest class
“Well, he’s dead.”
— Bill Gates in 2021, answering a question about Jeffrey Epstein
In the late 90s, Bill Gates was a weird sort of cultural icon. He didn’t score touchdowns or collaborate with Dr. Dre or beat up bad guys in movies. He wasn’t good-looking or charismatic. He wasn’t constantly on camera.
He was rich.
Bill Gates had more money than anyone else for such a long time (continuously between 1995 and 2007) that world’s richest person was more like an official title than a temporary status. John Paul was the Pope, and Bill Gates was the richest person on earth.
I know, I know — his riches weren’t the initial driver of his fame. He cofounded Microsoft. He changed the world. And it would be impossible to overstate his work’s impact on society. Before he topped Forbes’ The World’s Billionaires list in ’95, he was already a massively important and famous person. Yet, over time, being the richest man on earth became more iconic than the achievements that earned him that status.
In the 90s, I couldn’t tell you much about Microsoft. But I knew who the world’s richest person was.
Titanic was the #1 film for 15 straight weeks in 1997, Mark McGwire hit 70 home runs in 1998, and Bill Gates’ wealth topped $100 billion in 1999.
To be clear, my memories from this era are those of an adolescent. But I remember viewing $100 billion and 70 home runs in a similar light: special cultural achievements. Milestones that we, the little people, could share in and celebrate.
The mainstream media in the 90s and early 2000s didn’t cast billionaires as villains. For the most part, they still don’t. Rather, we’re fed stories about companies that started in garages, illusions about bootstraps and sparks of genius.
They (the billionaires and the media) love to let us in on little bits of wisdom and slices of life from the “elites.”
Bill Gates reads 50 books per year!
Mark Zuckerberg wears hoodies… in the office!
Jeff Bezos used to hold staff meetings at Barnes & Noble!
The obsession with their early years, daily routines, and spending habits suggests we could all become obscenely wealthy if we just followed their lead.
The messaging is even preachier when the topic is money. An endless stream of commentary tracks the investment strategies of Warren Buffett (net worth $148 billion). And for decades, writers and interviewers have fawned over his humility and frugality.
Skip the avocado toast on Tuesday, wake up a billionaire on Wednesday, right?
My favorite quote I came across while writing this article came from the media mogul Ted Turner:
“I sit down and say, I’ve only got $10 billion, but Bill Gates has $100 billion; l feel like I’m a complete failure in life. So, billions won’t make you happy if you’re worried about someone who’s got more than you.”
— Ted Turner in 2000, on the emotional weight of being poorer than Bill Gates
Don’t think too hard about your wealth in relation to mine. That can only lead to trouble. Instead, learn to be humble, like I have (with my $10 billion).
The thing is, we can emulate their humility, their morning routines, and their investment strategies, but that won’t make us more like them. Because, while most of us have some drive to grow our monetary wealth, we don’t have what it takes to become billionaires. And I mean that as a compliment.
First, there’s the path to a billion dollars, likely to include spurning partners, crushing competition, and exploiting the heck out of a lot of people and resources. Then, there’s the reality of keeping hold of that much wealth in a world where children starve, where people sleep on the streets.
That level of hoarding is a sickness. And eventually, the little people begin to recognize it as such.
“When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Every billionaire knows that when the threat of being eaten by the poor starts getting too real, it’s time to s̶t̶o̶p̶ ̶e̶v̶a̶d̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶t̶a̶x̶e̶s̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶b̶r̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶r̶ ̶n̶e̶t̶ ̶w̶o̶r̶t̶h̶ ̶d̶o̶w̶n̶ ̶b̶e̶l̶o̶w̶ ̶1̶0̶ ̶d̶i̶g̶i̶t̶s̶ rebrand your image.
So, they show the public that they’re one of the good ones — a philanthropist.
Pull up a list of billionaires, pick one, and find a bio. More often than not, you’ll read that so-and-so Sally Billionaire is an entrepreneur and a philanthropist.
It’s a funny word — philanthropist — because there’s a big gap between the dictionary definition and the way the word is used. A philanthropist is someone who donates money to charity or who “makes an active effort to promote human welfare.” Yet, you’ll rarely hear the term applied to social workers, community volunteers, or middle-class folks who give generously. Rather, the people who keep more money than anyone else — those are our philanthropists.
Own the politicians, avoid any meaningful tax burden, flick a few billion dollars at charity — and you’re a philanthropist.
“They’re spending more than I would even tax them.”
— New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, on campaign spending by the ultra-rich who wanted to avoid a tax hike
If we didn’t let them “give” their money to charity, rather than “pay” taxes, how would we know that they’re friends, not food?
And so, in 2010, three of the most tenderhearted billionaires made it easy for their comrades to communicate their good intentions. It’s called The Giving Pledge.
The Giving Pledge was founded by Bill Gates, his then-wife Melinda French Gates, and Warren Buffett. It’s a voluntary, non-binding *promise* that billionaires can *publicly* make to *eventually* give away most of their money. Maybe soon, maybe after they’re dead.
As an original pledger, Gates sets the tone. He says he’s given away more than $100 billion, but “still has more to give.”
Here’s what it looks like when a billionaire goes full philanthropist:
Since deciding to give all his money away, he’s managed to trim his wealth from $53 billion to $115 billion. It’s inspirational.
Putting sarcasm aside, the word I would really use to describe this behavior is trashy. Trashy people can be poor or rich, and I’d argue that the billionaires — especially the ones who palled around with Jeffrey Epstein — are the trashiest among us. Trashy people lack class. They behave indecently. They’re often obsessed with money, and want everyone to know how they’re spending it — whether it’s on a fur coat, or a Giving Pledge.
At this point, let me pause to acknowledge a few things. Bill Gates is one of the biggest charitable givers, by any standard, in world history. And he doesn’t just throw money around — he’s the chair of the Gates Foundation, actively turning his philanthropic ideals into major initiatives around the world that improve health and fight poverty. He also pays more taxes than most billionaires and calls for higher taxes on the rich.
But… “saving the world” can’t work this way — with the top 1% owning more wealth than 95% of the human race and a tiny number of ultra-elites deciding who gets saved, which diseases get cured, and what progress looks like in developing nations. In this scenario, the one we’re already living in, we’re subject to the shifting moods of the Gates’s and Musk’s and Bezos’s of the world. And these are fickle individuals with questionable motives, at best.
In the 2024 US presidential election, Bill Gates backed Kamala Harris. Yet, in 2025, there he was at a White House dinner, seated next to the First Lady, thanking President Trump for his “incredible leadership.” The same president who dissolved USAID, a move that the Center for Global Development estimates could lead to hundreds of thousands of needless deaths. That makes Trump the antithesis of everything Gates claims to stand for.
Perhaps, like so many world leaders, Gates thinks there’s more to be gained (in his case, for his philanthropic causes) by cozying up to Trump, rather than standing up to him. I would disagree.
In October, he did another favor for Trump when he published some surprising comments about climate change, blaming a “doomsday outlook” on diverting innovation away from “improving lives.” He argued that “from the standpoint of improving lives, using more energy is a good thing.” And then, more recently, he announced the Horizon1000 initiative, a partnership with OpenAI (a notorious energy consumption beast) to bring AI healthcare into 1,000 clinics throughout Africa. Separately, he’s talking about using AI to turn Africa into a “significant net food exporter.”
So, buckle up, Africa. AI is coming, along with its ravenous data centers and unregulated privacy concerns. A 70-year-old white guy from Seattle is in charge.
Maybe Bill Gates wants what’s best for us. But no unelected individual should have this much power to simply dream up their own vision of the future and impose it on the rest of us.
Especially when they’re compromised by the most appalling sex crime scandal in history.
When Gates had dinner at the White House, it was a win for Trump.
When he backtracked on climate change, it was a win for Trump.
Maybe appeasing the president and shifting on climate policy are just parts of his strategy, and that strategy is rooted entirely in helping humanity. Or, maybe, he was getting nervous about the blowup over the Epstein files.
For anyone implicated in Epstein’s crimes and sins, being on Trump’s good side could conceivably make all the difference in determining what secrets are released. It could be the difference between a redacted email address and a world-shattering revelation.
So, what do we know about Bill Gates and Epstein?
For starters, the documented relationship between the two men began in 2011. That was several years after Epstein’s initial wave of criminal issues related to sexual abuse and pedophilia.
Having limited contact with Epstein in the 2010s doesn’t necessarily mean much. He was everywhere. However, the more contact you had, the worse you look.
Disturbing Gates/Epstein revelations include:
Gates said in 2019 that he “didn’t have any business relationship or friendship” with Epstein.
In fact, Gates’ association with Epstein lasted for a period of years, although their interactions may have been sparse.
There’s no evidence that Gates ever visited Epstein’s island, but he did ride on Epstein’s jet, at least once.
He visited Epstein’s New York home at least three times. After one visit, he emailed a colleague that “A very attractive Swedish woman and her daughter dropped by and I ended up staying there quite late.”
In unsent email drafts, Epstein wrote about Gates getting an STD from a prostitute, spreading the disease to his wife, and planning to covertly provide her with medicine.
Melinda French Gates has indicated that her divorce from Bill was at least in part due to his relationship with Epstein. She said she met Epstein once, because “I wanted to see who this man was… he was evil personified. I had nightmares about it afterwards.”
Clearly, Epstein gave Gates at least a glimpse of his evildoings. And the way Gates carried on afterward was a major red flag for his wife.
Gates claims he only met with Epstein in the hopes of attracting philanthropic donations. It’s a bad excuse.
When you’re a billionaire, it’s pretty easy to make sure you’re vetting your philanthropic partners. And you don’t need to accept a pedophile’s gifts, let alone attend his late-night parties.
The story we’re expected to believe is that one of the richest men on earth pledged to give all his money away, kept getting richer anyway, and was also so desperate to raise even more money that he was compelled to pursue a years-long friendship with a human trafficker who gave off “evil personified” vibes.
Chasing money so recklessly— even if it’s for charity — well, it’s just trashy, Bill. Unless, of course, you’re lying. In which case, you’re something much worse than trashy.
Either way: you’re compromised. And it’s no longer fair to expect us to trust your vision for humanity.
If you really want to help, give away all your billions, like you said you would. Relinquish control over how that money is spent. Throw your full weight behind the movement to abolish billionaires by taxing 100% of wealth over $1 billion.
Get out before it’s too late. Because eventually, when the people have nothing else to eat, they will eat the rich. And the Epstein class should be the first course.
I have a bit of context. I knew his parents. My mom was friends with his mom. They were not nice people. Everyone around them thought so, but they were all in the same club.
His mom used to worry that he would never amount to anything. Her words. She was scared for him.
But they had money. He went to a school here that existed to breed elites. I partied with those kids. They live on a different planet. They live their entire lives in a world we see in magazines. They know nothing else.
When you hear how he invented DOS with Ballmer (IIRC), in a garage, no they didn't. They were allowed to skip class in their ivy covered school to play on their computer.
He and his teenage buddy built a program. It was the right program for the right time. They even got their picture in the local paper!
Don't ever look up to these people. A smattering of intelligence, and a ton of luck is what they got in the roulette wheel of life.
The body language of the women in the photos speaks volumes.