> Gates mostly earned money by selling products to people in the top 10% of global incomes - products they willingly bought. This is a bit of a foil; 10% globa

> Gates mostly earned money by selling products to people in the top 10% of global incomes - products they willingly bought. This is a bit of a foil; 10% globally includes many in the bottom 10% in the US. Buyers also include schools--computer labs are large portion of the increase in cost of education, which most would agree is extremely expensive in the US. And a lot of that money comes from corporations, who simply pass the cost of the tools on to their poor customers while not allowing those poor customers use of the tools. I'm also not sure how one can represent the fact that Windows products are only available to those in the top 10% income bracket as a positive thing. I'm also not sure how you justify "willingly"; I've bought Windows products a few times because they were packaged with the hardware and I had no other choice. > I think he intends to give away most of his money before he dies - like 90% or so. This is true, but this doesn't respond to the point I was making: 1. Bill Gates is not the only beneficiary of Bill Gates' actions. Bill Gates giving 90% of his income doesn't give back all the money that Microsoft amassed. 2. 10% of Bill Gates' wealth is still more than most people will make over the course of their entire lifetimes. If you see this as "Bill Gates took a net of $10 billion from everyone else" instead of "Bill Gates took $100 billion from everyone else and gave $90 billion of it back" he looks a lot less generous.