On 24-Jun-06, at 7:59 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
What does it say to you that of the 4 million babies who die within
their first month, 98 percent are from poor countries? What do
those statistics tell you about the world?
GATES: It really is a failure of capitalism. You know capitalism is
this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful
inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at
large, it's really let us down.
What a freaking brain-dead idiot! (I know, this is not news).
He thinks he's so great on statistics, but doesn't seem to comprehend
this one simple,
glaring statistic: starvation, malnutrition and disease are most
prevalent in the least
capitalist countries, in a very straightforward inverse-proportional
relation.
How is it a fucking failure of CAPITALISM that it cannot magically
produce goods
in SOCIALIST/COMMIE countries?
Oh, and his idea of giving his cash away to the fucking governments
of commie
countries (directly or indirectly, much of the cash WILL find a way
into the private
bank accounts of parasitical elites) for "health" is just about the
worst damn idea
in the world.
If free cash has (as he says) a bad impact on the kids of
billionaires, how will it magically
have any better impact on the already-fucking-bastard autocrats of
countries starving
under the collectivist yoke?
GATES: Right. Here what we have is, with the plural disease, not
only don't the people with money have the disease, but they don't
see the people who have the disease. If we took the world and we
just re-assorted each neighborhood to be randomly mixed up, then
this whole thing could get solve.
Yeah? Um, isn't that what exactly open global immigration would do?
Go sue the fucking INS for human rights violations, Billy boy. That
is really the
Right Thing to do! Get rid of immigration and trade barriers, and
everything else
will solve itself via the simple means of mass exodus of people from
collectivist
countries.
GATES: the thing that's so stark is that you're in Johannesburg
which is sort of a first world location.
Ha!
GATES: I think we make it every day by thinking that national
borders are you know allow huge inequities to exist across those
borders.
OK, so what are you going to do about THAT? There is a Supreme Court
in the USA,
you know, and a Constitution, which does NOT refer to any such
concept as "natural
born Americans". Only "all men".
Or do you not grasp the concept of attacking the problem at its root,
rather than fighting
a never-ending battle against its symptoms?
Or maybe (much less likely) do you realize at some level that the US
constitution has
already been flushed down the crapper by the very people who have
taken solemn
oaths to "preserve, protect and defend" it.
GATES: I was in China just two weeks ago talking to the Health
Minister and talking to Jiang Zemin about raising the profile there.
That would make a nice MS ad: "Mr. Microsoft - Mingling with Murderers."
And they have — for their level of income — quite a strong health
system. And quite, you know, a willingness to say, okay, if this is
about sex workers we'll go in and we'll register the sex workers.
And we're gonna make sure that certain behavioral changes are
taking place, like Thailand did.
Gotta love those "behavioural changes" - like summary executions of
capitalists
engaged in the manufacture and sale of politically incorrect substances.
GATES: And so well, I'm thinking a lot about that. I'm interested
in any ideas.
Yeah? How about championing the abolition of the INS, and open
immigration?
GATES: I think understanding the basic facts about the AIDS
epidemic is important. I think knowing how little resources are
going into these things. Knowing that this is not a case of
government waste. I mean there's this notion of government spending
in general and foreign aid that often ends up in some dictators
bank account.
Maybe because, duh, it DOES? Oh, and just because a blood-sucking
parasite
is democratically elected doesn't make him any less of a dictator.
Hitler was
democratically elected, as was Mao, as is Kim Jong-il. Democracy is
simply a
disguised and especially dangerous form of tyranny.
And so it is a special thing that the cynicism about government
spending should be suspended here because it can be handled in the
right way.
Oh, suuuure. Man, are you blind as well, on top of being brain-dead?
The world's not going to forgive you for your fucking crappy software
just
because you give away some of your stash to tyrannical 3rd world
autocrats to
buy yourself a "philanthropist" tag.
And the world's going to be no better for your handouts, which can,
at best, only
suppress symptoms while the disease keeps getting worse. That's
generally
considered pretty dangerous. I would have thought at least one of the
medical
books you claim to have read would have touched upon this concept!
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