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Bill Gates Answers Questions From Redditors
First time accepted submitter rroman writes "Bill Gates is answering questions on reddit. He talks about the work that is being done by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, about his life and about his opinions on various topics."
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Where exactly did this posting claim otherwise? Dumbass.
The summary used the present tense "is answering" verses the past tense "has answered". Perhaps you should learn the language you claim to be using?
It is a bit disappointing to see that "something interesting is happening on Reddit" is the best that the new admins can come up with these days. That and the..well, they used to be thinly veiled advertisments but now you're practically beat over the head with them, why did Malda leave his own blog again? For that matter why am I not on Reddit where the actual interesting news is, excuse me...
I'll bite.
The elephant in the room in these discussions for me is that no one ever wants to talk about the idea that might be immoral for a society to ever let a single individual get so wealthy in the first place, irrespective of any responsible use of said wealth.
But that's not Gates' fault. Don't hate the player. Hate the game.
You're right, I wouldn't steal a car. But if it were possible, I sure as hell would download one!
Ah well, It's likely better that he's taken his drive and his billions and put it towards a noble cause.
What cause would that be? Evading taxes? Attempting to buy a legacy? The best thing he's done is give money to Sal Khan and he didn't need a foundation to do that. Bill Gates is Lister Rosewater, not Eliot Rosewater.
What does vaccinating people in third world countries do? In one of his answers regarding the foundation he says it spends half its money (half the money it spends, not half the money in the foundation, which grows over time making it a profitable venture) on global health. It just keeps people who have no economic value alive for longer so they can consume more resources and contribute nothing back to the world. Maybe I'm being cynical and Gates actually has good intentions, but if that's the case, he's really incompetent at doing good and should probably just stick to evil.
If Gates wants to improve healthcare then start here in the U.S. Lobby for a single-payer system and actively advocate such a solution to the public. Buy out medical supply companies that consistently increase the prices of their goods at a much higher rate than inflation and exploit S.S./Medicare subsidies and end those practices. Buy out companies that provide lunch services in schools and only sell healthy food.
At the risk of sounding xenophobic, fuck third world countries. Why should Americans spend their resources feeding kids that will grow up to do nothing in third world countries while certain parts of our own country is devolving into a third world regions of their own because multinational American companies (like Microsoft) don't pay shit in taxes and all of our country's wealth is held by a tiny minority of assholes who 'spend' money on 'charity?' Feeding and vaccinating people in third world countries doesn't absolve a person of criticism.
When the typical American has a quality of life that equals the average Fin or Swede, then Americans can worry about saving the rest of the world. Until then, every dollar you spend donating to third world problems is just a dollar less in the U.S. economy (and, more importantly, less money in the treasury since, you know, the tax break and all).
Yeah, this issue really grinds my gears. If the government stopped subsidizing 'charity' it would do a world of good by doing less good for the world.
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Profit-seeking capitalists have done far more bad things to the world than philanthropists.
Profit-seeking capitalists have done far more bad things to the world than good things for the world.
Profit-seeking capitalists do harm to the world even when they are unsuccessful.
Profit-seeking capitalists are far more likely to be unsuccessful than philanthropists.