I’d say it’s more butterfly effect than Rube Goldberg. A Rube Goldberg would be engineered with the intent and goal of shooting and killing you. Anyone who has made one can attest to the time and effort and focus needed to get it to accomplish its goal (which in this case is killing you).
Gates’ actions are not intended to kill you. Just to make himself rich. You are just collateral damage.
I mean it’s still about as moral as burning down the Amazon rainforest to make some money, but Bill Gates isn’t setting out with the goal to murder you specifically. Unless you slept with his wife or something.
This is literal cause and effect in reality.
If I start a Rube Goldberg machine that ends with it shooting and killing you, should I not be held responsible?
I’d say it’s more butterfly effect than Rube Goldberg. A Rube Goldberg would be engineered with the intent and goal of shooting and killing you. Anyone who has made one can attest to the time and effort and focus needed to get it to accomplish its goal (which in this case is killing you).
Gates’ actions are not intended to kill you. Just to make himself rich. You are just collateral damage.
I mean it’s still about as moral as burning down the Amazon rainforest to make some money, but Bill Gates isn’t setting out with the goal to murder you specifically. Unless you slept with his wife or something.