Gates' manifesto. A Messianic fantasy. I don't know how else to characterize this speech by Bill Gates described by the WSJ below.All religions and social systems ever practiced have preached this message. Duh! is the only thing I can say. Maybe if Gates had not dropped out of college he would know something about humankind. The book list he read to prepare his manifesto is a riot.
Bill Gates Issues Call For Kinder Capitalism
Famously Competitive, Billionaire Now Urges Business to Aid the Poor
By ROBERT A. GUTH
January 24, 2008; Page A1
Free enterprise has been good to Bill Gates. But today, the Microsoft Corp. chairman will call for a revision of capitalism.
In a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the software tycoon plans to call for a "creative capitalism" that uses market forces to address poor-country needs that he feels are being ignored.
Outgoing Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates talks to The Journal's Rob Guth about his concept of creative capitalism. (Jan. 23, 2008)
"We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well," Mr. Gates will tell world leaders at the forum, according to a copy of the speech seen by The Wall Street Journal....more
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