So Bill Gates is looking for a kinder capitalism.
I've got an idea for Bill.... quit selling a crappy operating system. I think all of us would feel better about a kinder capitalism.
For the record Bill, the very capitalism you despise, is the capitalism that allows you to kick in $20 billion to charity and live in this slum.
- Assessed values (as of 2002) of $113 million, with over $1 million in annual property tax
- 66,000 square feet
- The wood columns from main floor to roof in entry area are over 70 feet tall.
- Some of the interior passage doors weigh over 800 lbs, but are balanced for easy use.
- The roofing is stainless steel.
- Hidden cameras are everywhere, including the interior stone walls.
- Gates insisted on saving a 40 year old maple adjacent to the driveway. The tree is monitored electronically 24 hours per day via computer. If it seems dry, it gets just the right amount of water automatically delivered.
- All woodwork is flawless. Much of the woodwork is of various rare types from all over the world - imported especially for this house.
- The theater (underground in a concrete shell) is the most state of the art theatre in the world according to specialty contractor.
I can't stand the thought of a billionaire whining.
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The places in the world that Gates is complaining about are all places that have no capitalism. Look anywhere in the world for people asking for financial charity and people offering it.
The people that need (or expect others to offer) charity are always the socialists. The people who actually deliver the charities are always those who have had the opportunity to participate in a free market.
It never occurs to these socialist mental giants that the export of captial to poor counties provides 1/50th of the benefit compared to the export of capital*ism*.
It shocks me that Bill Gates of all people does not get this. Or maybe he knows that a whining billionaire will be fawned over by the left-leaning press and it's good PR.
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