An interview with Bill Gates

Why, so they can't create companies to support their countr's GDP to become independent of your pity aid?

What a monopolistic cunt. Make microsoft quit taxing android phones for a windows license before you act like you have a high ground beyond your 22 hidden patents.

What a rich shitmark.

Guys don't go so hard on him. This is a passionate person about getting rid of this disease.

I've had malaria 7 or so times. The problem is when you don't get access to medication which is the problem. If you don't it can kill you very slowly.

Malaria is caused by this organism transmitted by mosquitoes. If you get rid of it, mosquitoes still live, but malaria can disappear.

Also its not zero sum. Dedicating resources to getting rid of malaria isn't going to stop people getting access to the internet. The problem lies more with the cost and quality of the internet.

Most people in Africa have access to the internet via some form of wireless means (mostly 3G/Edge). The problem is this is very costly. All the solutions that keep coming forth are just variations of wireless (Loon for example). People to have the phones, its not rare to see people go hungry to save up to by phones.

It gets access to a lot of people but then you have issues like latency, connection dropping, susceptibility to bad weather & bad signal. People love the internet but hate the cost. Android is partly solving it, but infrastructure is the other hard problem.

Everyone would love to hate him but I find it very hard to do that. His actions are clearly louder than his words (even when out of context).

the QALYs generated by enabling tech are harder to quantify because they are several steps removed from the aid. Example: the CDC has projected that greater access to the internet could save millions of lives by providing quicker info about breakouts of infectious diseases and coordinating responses.

You don't have to agree with everything that a person says or does in order to acknowledge a simple truth. If Gates said the sky is blue, would you (as you have done) call him a 'cunt' for saying so?

Clean water, healthy food, tenable living environment... All these things obviously matter more than internet connectivity. I don't know how anyone could argue otherwise.

If you can get yourself vaccinated against a disease, that's one less thing that can go wrong. You have to be healthy to do things.

False dichotomy. You can do both at the same time.