Gates Issues Call For "Creative Capitalism"

theodp writes "Bill Gates makes his case for Creative Capitalism in TIME, citing projects like a Text-Free UI for illiterate computing, the use of Multimouse technology to allow fifty kids to share one computer display, cell phone billing by the second, and Bono's RED campaign as examples of the type of corporate creativity that can make the world a better place for the billion or so people scraping by on less than a dollar a day. Michael Kinsley, a former Microsoft employee whose wife still advises the Gates Foundation, says it's hard to object to Gates' goals, but notes that creative capitalism does have its share of skeptics, and points out that there was not a whole lot of energy devoted to lifting up the world's poor during Bill's three decades at Microsoft."

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Re:WTF is this "education" worship going on?

[DaedalusHKX]

The beauty of language is something most people don't get. When you strip meaning, you get "newspeak." Look it up. Removing nuance from language has one beautiful benefit for those who rule. Depending on how they shape language depends on how the unquestioning cattle below are able to think. Most of them do not think in images but in words. Forcing them to only have the words you want available, creates exactly the society that is shaping up today.

Removing the meaning and word for theft does not remove theft, it merely makes those who cannot fathom it, remain unaware of its existence.

Plus, with 20 different meanings to each word, you can find out what kind of mind you are conversing with. You are either dealing with an unimaginative serf... or you are dealing with something more. You can't find this out if the mind isn't allowed to play with words. Oh wait... comrade Lenin, is that you?!