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Dear Bill Gates. Here's yardstick to measure residual value of your efforts: If you'd stop doing whatever you're doing, will the world continue benefit from you
by gesman 14y ago
Dear Bill Gates. Here's yardstick to measure residual value of your efforts:
If you'd stop doing whatever you're doing, will the world continue benefit from your past efforts for ages to come?
Compare "buying food for the hungry" and "teaching the man to fish" - which effort carry more residual value?
You developed DOS, and then Windows. Even when you stopped - the world continued rolling with your software and building more and more great stuff on top of it.
Even Ballmer with all his powers couldn't derail your past efforts.
Dear Bill Gates, please stop taking consequences for causes, stop fighting with shadows. See where you can turn on the light so it will shine when you'll be long gone.
Money + creativity goes the long way. It's time to add creativity. You can do that! You can do that!
- thechut 14y agoCould you elaborate on what it is he "can do"? Also I'm not sure his creation of DOS and Windows really has much bearing on his more recent philanthropic efforts.
- gesman 14y agoDear Bill Gates. Stop buying stuff for people. Be that vaccines or portable toilets or donations to some vague "research" causes. Invest in helping people to discover the powers within. Do not invest in making people think they need to depend on some external rich power to pull themselves out of their misery. That is misservice. This is lie. That warm, fuzzy feeling you get after spending billion on buying stuff for poor people comes with deeper unease - deep inside you know that you did not really make a lasting difference. Difference yes. Lasting - only until that billion ran out and your vaccines are used, food is eaten and very soon they will want more. This is not a difference. Invest in helping people to learn the skills, invest in helping people to find inspiration within, invest in helping people to express their own creativity and power. Invest in helping people to discover how each of them can help other million people without spending billion dollars.
- jackowayed 14y agoHe's trying to eradicate polio. That would be incredible lasting good. Research does serious lasting good as well. Research funding built the Internet, for example.
- illuminate 14y ago"Stop buying stuff for people. Be that vaccines or portable toilets or donations to some vague "research" causes. Invest in helping people to discover the powers within" "The Secret" is hogwash, not modern medical science. You can't help someone "express their creativity and power" when they're dying of preventable disease.