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I am irked to no end how off the mark their entire foundation is. It's like the person with the least imagination on earth, got handed billions of dollars. Wha

I am irked to no end how off the mark their entire foundation is. It's like the person with the least imagination on earth, got handed billions of dollars. What is the lowest hanging fruit of all time? Right, the night-time ads on TV with poor children in a foreign country. What is the least imaginative way of helping a developed nation? 'Better education'. Sigh. Really? We just need to stop children from dying, educate the parents, and everything will be fine? It's not that people are pessimistic - they are just REALISTIC, about what a crock of shit they're being handed, and Bill and Melinda's answer is to meet Steven Pinker and go 'hey, statistics show that everything's better than it ever was!' My god... We're talking billionaires, having no ideas, no imagination, and no idea that they have neither, and wondering why things kind of suck? Because people with no ideas, no imagination, are the ones who get to make billions of dollars in our society? Maybe, just maybe, that has something to do with it Bill...

Daishiman 9y ago
This is completely uninsightful.
- alexashka 9y ago
  If you had cancer and didn't know it, and someone named Melinda came and gave you a nice bed, some pain-pills and told you she cared, you'd feel a bit better. Except you'd still have cancer. When someone got you to a doctor, who operated on you quickly and saved your life, you'd not only consider the person who got you to the doctor insightful, but far more helpful than Melinda, and be rightfully outraged at Melinda's well-meaning but clueless efforts to help you. I am the person getting you to the doctor, Melinda is Melinda Gates, and the insightful bit is figuring out what cancer is, and what a doctor would be, in this metaphor. Melinda and Gates think it's lack of education in the USA. You tell me.
dennis_jeeves 9y ago
alexashka- pity you were downvoted. I upvoted you. I agree with all that you said. What you stated are uncomfortable truths that not many want to confront. Bill is not really a smart guy in my standing. May be one could argue that he is smart in a narrow band - that of making money. I certainly can think of a few of my acquaintances who can be more creative than him in ways to "help" others.

Daishiman 9y ago

This is completely uninsightful.

alexashka 9y ago
If you had cancer and didn't know it, and someone named Melinda came and gave you a nice bed, some pain-pills and told you she cared, you'd feel a bit better. Except you'd still have cancer. When someone got you to a doctor, who operated on you quickly and saved your life, you'd not only consider the person who got you to the doctor insightful, but far more helpful than Melinda, and be rightfully outraged at Melinda's well-meaning but clueless efforts to help you. I am the person getting you to the doctor, Melinda is Melinda Gates, and the insightful bit is figuring out what cancer is, and what a doctor would be, in this metaphor. Melinda and Gates think it's lack of education in the USA. You tell me.

dennis_jeeves 9y ago

alexashka- pity you were downvoted. I upvoted you. I agree with all that you said. What you stated are uncomfortable truths that not many want to confront. Bill is not really a smart guy in my standing. May be one could argue that he is smart in a narrow band - that of making money. I certainly can think of a few of my acquaintances who can be more creative than him in ways to "help" others.