I've long guessed, and this OP reinforces that, that much of what Bill and Melinda are doing now was driven by Melinda 'selling' Bill on some values that Meli

I've long guessed, and this OP reinforces that, that much of what Bill and Melinda are doing now was driven by Melinda 'selling' Bill on some values that Melinda deeply held and got from her nuns and the Catholic church. But, yes, the story of Bill's visit to Soweto showed that some of Bill's own experiences made him fertile ground for Melinda's values and goals. I may be underestimating Bill's initial drive for their work now, but generally I have to guess that Melinda is the main hero here. Oh, not to forget, one little thing Melinda did: She talked both Bill and Warren into handing over, what, ballpark $100 billion? Then for her second day, the set up a value that all wealthy people should give about 50% of their wealth to philanthropy and got, apparently, quite a list of wealthy people to do just that. Another good thing to respect about them clearly seems to be their marriage; it looks like on of their beet examples. Perhaps not just coincidentally, their love and relationship, if more widely followed, would have helped those woman and children abandoned in South Asia. My view is that their example of a good marriage is huge not just for themselves but for their goals of curing poverty, that is, it is easy to see that letting marriage break is one of the biggest wastes in civilization, in particular, leading to poverty and the problems they are now trying to solve. Why so many people are so eager to bust up their marriages, or just not be very devoted to each other at all, seems to be a grand determination to extract miserable defeat from the voracious jaws of magnificent victory and just inexplicable. Congratulations to them both.