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I don't care about class, I care about individual people. If you're going to advocate punishing a class because of the actions of a few individuals you happen t
by simonh 4y ago
I don't care about class, I care about individual people. If you're going to advocate punishing a class because of the actions of a few individuals you happen to categorise them with, I'm out. I see banks fined billions for money laundering, VW execs going to jail for fraudulent emissions cheating, an investment banker and his girlfriend going to jail for sex trafficking, a bunch of EU politicians being rounded up for corruption. Is the system perfect? No, but I don't expect any system to be. How are you going to make sure the system you want is immune from human faults. What's the secret?
The billionaire I was talking about Mo Ibrahim. He wrote a program for planning cellular radio networks and built a company around it starting from his dining room called MSI, which is where I worked for him. He then went on to found Celtel. He saw what was happening in Europe and realised that cellular radio could be a transformative technology, that could help Africa jump forward technically much more cheaply than traditional wired telecoms of the time. He runs a charity focused on promoting responsible leadership and democratic values in Africa.
Genuinely one of the nicest guys I have ever met, and if you gave me a billion pounds and said I could give it to a government bureaucracy or Mo Inrahim, I'd give it to Mo. I trust him to know how it could do the most good, whether that's helping people in need, or building companies that employ people and provide valuable services, or develop great technology the world needs.