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September 20th, 2010 at 12:34 am
Bill Gates throws money at often under-researched, sometimes dated approaches to doing his “philanthropy” often hurting/undermining better organized, thought out, and modern solutions funded by way less. So really, Gates is just another person who doesn’t check their facts and just forwards bullshit like you!
September 20th, 2010 at 5:49 am
I take your criticism… his malaria and AIDS programs are not perfect. But are you really arguing that it would be better if his foundation didn’t exist?
January 14th, 2011 at 1:12 pm
Bil Gates (and others like him) philanthropy is just small patches for hudge problems.
People like him have the opportunity to truly make a change for Third World countries to progress and alleviate their pain.
September 3rd, 2012 at 9:50 am
Look, I understand that it’s easiest to think of faults of bureaucracy and then assign them automatically to every large program, but this is just on the level of the absurd. In the under-researched, he funds the research, and his methods are as modern as they come, if not far moreso modern than any other organization, including developing new technology to help solve a problem and providing it too, rather than the dated method used by almost every major charity function in providing a specific service in a cheap, often unsustainable, often short-lived process.
He’s funded research into malaria and a few weeks ago a single-dose cure for malaria was announced to go into clinical testing.
He’s funded research into better sanitation, and through it, inexpensive toilets have been developed that can generate energy and water, or be converted into high quality environmentally friendly animal feed, costing next-to-nothing to maintain and requiring no water sources.
He’s funded effective research into HIV Research, the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, and a large number of other important things. There are likely millions alive today that otherwise wouldn’t be. The majority of the money does go into research and how processes can be made effective, not just throwing money at random people. The “small patch” has had a bigger impact than almost anybody else could hope to accomplish, and getting 80 billionaires to pledge to give 99% of their wealth to charity by/after death also probably made that bigger. He is developing new ways to solve the problems, and it’s really not a patch in that it has a permanent affect and impacts the entire field.
I understand that it’s hard to reconcile the fact that he intends to donate approximately a few dozen times Steve Jobs’ net worth to charity by/after his death with the fact that Steve Jobs donated almost nothing, but please don’t insult Bill Gates’ work to help yourself feel better about your decisions. The two were actually close friends, and nobody except for the utterly obsessed on either side would say that either one of them didn’t change reshape technology for the better. Now, relax, and look forward to Bill Gates continuing to change the world. Steve Jobs probably would have wanted you to.
January 22nd, 2013 at 4:14 pm
I have know idea who you are, Eric Z, but that was the most rational, well-written response I have ever seen on all my days on the interwebs.
I tip my hat to you.
March 23rd, 2016 at 11:03 am
Lol, …ouch!