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Exactly. This is what kills me with the recent trend of claming billionairs are heroes. This year, Bill Gate has been all over the internet, "saving the world". But most of the money he gives away is invested by his "charity". And it goes into companies making military equipments, mining, extracting oil, etc. causing direct destruction of the causes they are pretending to protect. E.G: I lived and worked in Africa. I…
You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about when it comes to the Green revolution, the Gates foundation, or India. I have worked in agriculture in India. Without the green revolution India would have had a famine the likes of which the world has never seen. Pakistan and India would probably have fought more wars than they already did, to the death, over farmland and water (because neither would have had en…
But I'm not going to insult you the way you did insult me. Because I'm not insane. I'm a polite person sharing an experience.
BTW, my very first mission in Africa was for the Gate foundation. Half of our budget went directly to intermediary entities as a "managing fee". We couldn't control our budget ourself, we had to ask to people doubling our bills and taking a cut. Reports were falsified. And nobody cared. I never received once an email from the foundation to check how things were going.
It's not a suprise really. Gates was the founder of one of the worst company known, and yet praised for it.
MS did so many bad things, and no one seems to remember:
- corruption : http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandrawrage/2013/03/20/micros...
- helping dictators : http://www.salon.com/2011/09/06/wikileaks_microsoft_tunisia/
- Monopolistic practices : http://www.networkworld.com/article/2221165/microsoft-subnet...
- patent troll : http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=...
- extorsion as a business model : http://www.asymco.com/2011/05/27/microsoft-has-received-five...
And the Gate foundation keeps it up : http://www.agoravox.fr/tribune-libre/article/bill-gates-phil.... Small translation :
"As for most philantropic organisation, the Gates Foundation gives each year less than 5% of its capital to pay minimal taxes. [...] The remaining 95% are invested. [...] The Journalist of the LA times realized that the companies the foundation had shares and whose objectives were in contradiction with the caritative goals the GF pretented to reach for were up to 41% of the total, meaning 8.7B."
This is not a surprise, as BG started his all carrier by stealing ideas from Xerox, not to mention the shady IBM deal (http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/did-bill-gates-s...). Morality is not his strong point.
You can highligh what good the man DID bring with him, but you can't ignore all the bad he has done, or is doing right now. That would be foulish.