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Gates Foundation Plans To Invest $10B Into Vaccines
Endloser writes "Bill Gates is going to invest $10 billion to provide vaccines to people worldwide. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation believes that vaccines are the way to a better future for the world. So they have decided to make 'the largest pledge ever made by a charitable foundation to a single cause.' This 10-year, 10 billion dollar project is expected to save 8.7 million lives."
This is all money earned with anti-competitive business practices that have set free software back decades. Bill Gates should be in penniless and in prison. He is no hero.
That 10 billion dollars are nice, but they're still chump charge compared by the damage the foundation did by promoting patent enforcement. Who cares if you deliver X pieces of drug at the cost of $200 each if you could instead make the drug cost $1, its real manufacturing cost?
The argument about recouping research costs is no longer valid when most of the money goes into marketing instead of research.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
"Bill Gates is going to force $10 billion down poor people's throats, forcing them to get vaccines, some people believe are the cause of Autism and other diseases. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation believes that forcing vaccines onto the poor is way to a better future for Microsoft. So they have decided to make 'the largest effort ever made by a clearly corporate steered foundation to a capture millions of new customers' This 10 year, 10 billion dollar project is expected to add 8.7 Million into Microsoft depenceny."
Gates should invest this $10B on a anti-virus for Windows
It is typical for robber barons and organized crime leaders to give to charitable causes. Maybe (knowing the real cost of their ill-begotten gains) it helps them to sleep at night, maybe they hope it will make history look more kindly upon them. Regardless, while the end is good, let us not forget the illegal means used to obtain this money.
Since when does a rich person giving away money qualify them for respect?
$10B / 8.7M is $1,149 per life saved which seems inefficient for vaccines. I would think that $3 per person for personal mosquito nets and $9 per person for standard childhood vaccines would save more than 8.7M lives. Clean drinking water would help a lot. How much would that cost per person?
WTF is this? -1 Troll? Fucking slashbot mods on crack. Since when does M$ get any love around here? I don't care what they do under the name of "good", those dollars are blood monies payed for by you and me to support crappy, non-Free OSs. Fuck M$ and Fuck you for modding me down.
- Rennt (posted anon for obvious reasons)
HA! I'd mod you up, but I've already posted!
.....Countries aren't poor because they are poor, they are poor because they have bad institutions and governments.
Greed is the real problem! Bill Gates is the worst person on the planet for fixing greed and corruption. I for one would like him to give back all the profits he stole from small companies and go play with his trust fund. Stupid egotistical twit!
They can have my command prompt when they pry it from my cold dead fingers.