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The point is that you don't need to give up a younger Bill Gates for an older one.

It would surprise me greatly if Gates doesn't similarly already have his hands in politics, but the thing Gates has that the Koch brothers don't is soft power[1].

It takes 1 Libya bombing to create a damage so big would take 1000x Gates foundations to heal.

This is what organizations like the Gates foundation and also many development aid projects (not all) are aiming towards.

It slowly dawned on him that his phone had been taken just before he went through the security gates.

Sure, but the money Bill Gates spends on medical treatment takes resources away from other things.

Citing Gates as your anecdotal evidence to make a point about policy that affects millions of people is outright silly.

A few years back, Bill Gates said that he'd be working in biology if he were still a teenager [0].

I agree with much of what Gates writes, but at least in Europe this is more or less common sense.

Bill Gates obviously could always buy his own medical treatment.

> Gates just revealed the things that could prevent humanity's worst-case scenario Isn't he just the guy that created a software company?

It's like saying government policy should prevent people from going to university, and dropping out once they get in, because hey Bill Gates did it and look how that turned out.

I doubt any major news source will try to write an exposé on Gates' funding of X lobbying organization or Y "grassroots" movement, because most journalists (and people) agree with Gates' goals.

"Agility and Illegibility" again romanticizes widespread access to personal computers as some entrepreneurial Randian vision, that of Bill Gates specifically.

Of course, there is always the "Old Faithful List": Facebook, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, pg, Google, or anything professing a like/dislike of a language.

It has screwed up on monetization, too free for too long, too many hesitant initiatives, not enough killer instinct ("not enough Zuck", or if you like, "not enough Bill Gates").

Sure, Bill Gates's kids aren't going to public school probably even in Greenwich.

In a related video, if you've never seen it, this one is great, with the original Ctrl-Alt-Delete programmer (David Bradley) on stage with Bill Gates...

Gates provides an odd answer, and somewhat shifting blame.