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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."
"Creative Capitalism" sounds like a scam
"Creative Communism", you're making it way too easy. Sheesh.
"Bi-la Kaifa"
...Creative Socialism.
See, I'm tired of working. I want to sit around, drink coffee, beer, scotch and eat Pizza and the best Salmon. I want to watch Jerry Springer all day and eat bon bons! Occasionally, read, nah; who am I kidding.
All of this at the expense of the rich! The rich are ripping everyone off! Just because they got lucky! Well, enough of that! They get lucky then they'll have to support me! Why all you should make is enough to live on and the rest goes to us poor poor! We deserve it because we're unlucky! It's not our fault that we like beer! It's not our fault that we like to screw and have children we can't afford to support!
This non -sense of being rewarded for effort has to stop! It's a proven scientific fact that work is bad for your health! And if folks want to damage their health with work because of their own mental illness, thereby putting a strain on society, they should pay the bulk of the taxes an keep us healthy people supported!
Teach the buggers to read.
Imagine software used by students with their teachers to help the students learn to read. What kind of user interface should the student side of this software have?
I don't think we can say what the effect of the Foundation will be for a long time. I am, however, skeptical. BillG was a robber baron for 3 decades, proving that power and money were his greatest ideals.
Now he wants to give some money back. It seems like everyone assumes that giving away large sums of money means you're a great philanthropist. I disagree. Lots of his pay outs seem to be band aid solutions that sound good but are not really concerned with affecting the deep and painful social change necessary to make lasting improvements in impoverished parts of the world. He seems to be giving people fish so they will be dependent on gifts rather than teaching them to fish.
His gifts seem like investments in the same apathetic economic machinery that does little or nothing to help these impoverished places. Investing in drug research? Why, so these companies can make a profit selling the drugs to these needy and poor people? Thanks Bill!
Gates reminds me of the Hollywood airheads who, feeling guilty about getting so much money for doing nothing of value, attempt to buy back their souls by championing some nitwit cause. If he really wants to do something constructive, he should fix the Crapware he foisted on the world.
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