Bill Gates: Impatient Optimist

Billionaire's second phase has him on quest to eliminate the world's infectious diseases.

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• Bill Gates
• GAVI Foundation
• malaria vaccine
• infectious disease
• AIDS vaccine
• rotovirus
• tuberculosis
• HIV/AIDS
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[lin545]

Your impatient optimist is investing heavily into forcing genetically manipulated seeds in Africa.

Bill Gates has destroyed IT and put everyone on his "patent", now he plans to destroy Africa and make everyone dependent on his "seeds". Great job, Bill!

[aurapet]

you know you're ball'in when they do an interview of the interviewer who interviewed you :)

[visceralguy]

interesting. 

[zaneacademy]

@vorjay interesting... the problem is not that there people who are more ambitious, rich and successful than other people... this is normal and part of a successful society. The problem is when the system becomes rigged ... In the same way that there are too big to fail banks, there are also too rich to fail people... All the recent demonstrations in Europe and the occupy wall street in the US are a reaction to the uncontrolled wealth which gives unchecked powers to few individuals...

[vorjay]

@zaneacademy hate to reign on you utopian fantasy, but that exactly what your promoting, a utopian fantasy. There will always be an upper and lower class, plebeians and aristocracy, rich and poor

Look at communism, all those leaders that had Dachas on the black sea.

...and I hate to break something else to you, but special interest groups ie: a group of people, poor or otherwise can counterbalance wealth...and generally do.

The teachers union lobby does a fine job.

[garrethdavis]

@vorjay WHAT are you talking about?

[vorjay]

@garrethdavis okay so he just told a room of intellectuals he wants to be the next Hitler...

[garrethdavis]

@vorjay hah right, that statement makes you look like a mature, intelligent, and very intellectually capable individual, well done, well done.

[garrethdavis]

@vorjay haha quit with the insults you're cracking me up here! believe me I know exactly what you're talking about. Essentially as living standards rise, generally, population goes down. Is Bill Gates talking about living standards rising? All I heard was vaccines, and then reducing population, do you not think that's a bit dodgy? I thought vaccines were meant to keep people alive?

[zaneacademy]

@vorjay simple answer, it should be a worldwide thing..., anybody having and making over a certain money amount (maybe a couple of billions) should be taxed at a huge rate worldwide ...

Since 'money = power' ==> Anybody with that much money becomes a danger to democracy in his or her country or even in other countries...