‘Save us Bill Gates!’ Satirical video game slams billionaire’s globalist, free-market “philanthropy”

from RT

“The ’Save us Bill Gates!’ video game is clearly a tongue-in-cheek piece of fun, but the underlying issues it points to are very serious. It’s very disturbing that a small handful of obscenely rich individuals can exert an enormous influence on education, healthcare and agriculture policies around the world,”

“The vision of development that the Gates Foundation is pushing is one derived from the free market, big business values of corporate America, and has the potential to make poverty and inequality even worse.

“People in countries across the global south don’t need ‘saving’ by the likes of Bill Gates. They want justice and not charity, with changes in the unfair trade rules and tax legislations that mean that these countries are systemically impoverished.”

The game’s launch comes a day after the publication of a damning report by Global Justice Now on the business magnate’s influence on the field of international development.

The report found that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) is distorting the direction of global development towards corporate globalization.

Among the report’s key criticisms was the relationship between Microsoft’s tax-dodging practices and the money that the BMGF donates. According to a 2012 US senate report, the Gates-owned tech giant used offshore subsidiaries to avoid paying $4.5 billion in taxes, while the foundation issued grants totaling $3.6 billion in 2014.

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