🤡 Big Beautiful Bill(ionaires): Power Packaged as Philanthropy
The Big Beautiful Bill(ions): How Power Got Packaged as Philanthropy We were taught to applaud billionaires. Their TED talks. Their foundations. Their funds. We framed them as benevolent, forward-thinking architects of the future. But when we peel back the branding, what we find isn’t charity—it’s control. This is the rise of philanthropic capitalism : a system where private wealth shapes public life under the guise of goodwill. Where billionaires become gatekeepers of medicine, agriculture, education, and global health policy. 🔧 The Health-Industrial Complex, Upgraded "Everyone loves a man with a plan. Especially if he's holding a syringe, buying your farmland, and smiling on a TED stage." Billionaires like Bill Gates have invested in everything from vaccines to vertical farming to genetic data. But unlike governments, they operate without elections, checks, or transparency. Their "investments" are positioned as gifts. Their ideology becomes infrastructure. “T...