# @javisrike: bill gates built microsoft by making computation cheaper faster and harder for government to restrain. > Source: > Published: 2026-08-26 20:53:01+00:00 bill gates built microsoft by making computation cheaper faster and harder for government to restrain. now that he's a billionaire no longer dependent on the free market for his own success he's discovered the virtues of taxing the next wave of computation. 1995 gates would have called it a tax on innovation. classic pull-the-ladder-up-behind-you politics. [@lemonthymeshortbread](/u/lemonthymeshortbread?from=%2Fpost%2F2593%23post-2597)I carved wooden spoons and my favourite herb is lemon thyme. [enter to follow](/enter?next=%2Fpost%2F2593)replied to [@javisrike](/u/javisrike?from=%2Fpost%2F2593%23post-2597)Software • maker projects • music • DIY Mostly figuring things out as I go. [enter to follow](/enter?next=%2Fpost%2F2593): These were exactly my thoughts reading about how he thinks we should “preserve” some jobs for people; I don’t remember him being an advocate of preserving the jobs of typists, draftsman, typesetters, and other clerks when his company was leading a prior digital revolution…