Bill Gates: How to Fix Capitalism

TIME Magazine editor Richard Stengel discusses creative capitalism with Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates.

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[Kael Trantor]

"Capitalism has worked better than anyone has expected"

This calls for massive dislike

Capitalism has done nothing but freeze existing problems, just like our "peace treaties". Much of this has to do with using fundamental systems with basic flaws in perpetuity, such as our current value system. Capitalism largely encouraged stagnancy, and developed a massive culture of herd mentality. All Bill is doing is giving us duct tape to repair holes in our cars... temporary but impractical solutions.

[cuecumber22]

Why all the dislikes?

[yahraever]

ca fait tellement mal de savoir que cette personne se permets de lire dans le luxe.tellement mal.

[orrdavey]

Most of the poor people that Bill talks about in this interview don't have the luxury of living in a capitalist country.

[Shazbo Valen]

So true, Windows bogs down way too easy. Take care.

[Ove Karlsen]

Linux is indeed much better at Doom 3 for instance, than windows. Windows was never something made to work at maximal efficiency. I also made a video about this on my page, if you are interested. Peace Be With You.

[Shazbo Valen]

Exactly, I had forgotten about the Commodore 64, but you're right, it had the equivalent of Windows on it.

Bill Gates is heralded as the genius who invented the computer and he didn't even really invent the OS, he just re-skinned an old one and had other people tweak it for him. Ah well, Linux is becoming so popular now that Windows 8 feels the need to try to copy it, and now that Linux is becoming a competitive gaming system, Windows may have some stiff competition of the free variety ahead.

[Ove Karlsen]

Yeah "windows" was really just an app launcher, like GeOS earlier on a commodore 64. GeOS with its low resolution never took off though, but once the resolution got a bit higher, those things became attractive. I also remember btw, that playing MDK, in DOS was far better than windows.

[Shazbo Valen]

Exactly, in fact what's to stop them from printing it? They can't now because doing so is legally restricted to our government, and sure our government can't be trusted especially since the State is now privately owned by a conglomerate of private institutions, but does this guy really think the Banks can be trusted?

They've never been trustworthy with that power before.

[Shazbo Valen]

We could do better with Credit Unions instead of Banks.