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Originally Posted by toretorden
No he doesn't. That's you putting those words in ol' Bono's mouth. I think he's been quite consistent with his do-good attitude from the start which is perhaps an achievement when you think of everything he and the band has been through from the start. I rate Bono's influence on the world as much more positive than many, many other famous people out there and that's gotta be worth something.
In my opinion the only bad thing with U2 is perhaps their music if you don't like it and the fact that they've been too popular for their own good. What comes up must come down and nowadays they've become rather uncool. That doesn't matter to me, but it's a trend that's easy to spot with others.
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It's just a vibe I get from him, and a transformation I've seen within him over the years. If you watch interviews from early U2 days, he talks about his disgust with things like materialism and capitalism and whatnot, stating that people don't need big houses and fancy cars when other people in the world are starving. Yet now, decades later, he has a lavish property portfolio and heaps of luxury cars. I doubt he needs all those properties and fancy cars. It just seems really hypocritical of him to lead a lifestyle like this when in his early days it was something he detested.
Also, his push for the AIDS campaign where certain companies made designer clothes where a SLICE of the profit went to funding AIDS treatment in underdeveloped countries actually consisted of sweatshop workers making the clothes in GAP's factory in Lesotho where they were paid slave labour rates - another thing Bono apparently doesn't believe in yet let it happen in his campaign. The U2 limited edition iPod was also made in a Chinese sweatshop.
I'm not saying that he hasn't done any positive acts in the world because he has, he has done a lot. But when it comes down to it he honestly comes across as a publicity whore rather than a social change agent. I just find him really hypocritical and arrogant, and as the years go by he seems to be gradually slipping into the world of money, finance and capitalism: a world he once detested.