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Gates' donations are invested in problems that should have been dealt with by governments, whose tax money is spent instead on the semi-corrupt self interests of their leaders and their business cronies,[0] an economic-social structure which contributed much to the way in which Gates and other Global business billionaires have made their fortune. It's a twisted system, and conscience-cleansing philantropy by its curr…
Gates' donations are invested in problems that should have been dealt with by governments, whose tax money is spent instead on the semi-corrupt self interests of their leaders and their business cronies,[0] an economic-social structure which contributed much to the way in which Gates and other Global business billionaires have made their fortune. It's a twisted system, and conscience-cleansing philantropy by its curr…
-- What leads you to believe this? Do you think government is the most efficient way to solve these problems? Do you think Government has a responsibility to solve these problems? Why?
Based on what I have observed, government tends to be very inefficient when it comes to solving problems. Problems tend to be solved much more efficiently when individuals use their own resources to solve them.
Reading the rest of your comment, it appears you are advocating for a different sort of government/economic-social structure- perhaps a form that does not currently exist or has never existed. If so, you could simply state what you are advocating for, rather than criticizing the current system while offering no alternate solutions.
This is a bad way to measure philanthropy, and I think Bill Gates would agree. Anyone can dump money on a problem. But Bill Gates's money is still finite, and he has tried to make his money be the most efficient at solving given problems. He measures the stuff he does and sometimes finds out he goofed. I'm not exaggerating when I say he's likely one of the top 5 people in the world at knowing how to spend billions of…
To be clear, though, I really respect the Gates foundation's philanthropy philosophy. They are about achieving quantified results rather than just doing something trendy.