Bill Gates Gives Away US$306 Million, Goes Green Acres
Apparently money has burned quite the hole in Bill Gates’ philanthropic pocket, as during this week’s World Economic Forum in Switzerland, Gates pledged US$306 million in grants to fund farming in in poor/developing countries through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. To the audience he said:
If we are serious about ending extreme hunger and poverty around the world, we must be serious about transforming agriculture for small farmers, most of whom are women…The challenge here is to design a system including profit and recognition to do more for the poor.
I dunno, Apple. The way things have been going lately, maybe that giant head* on the big screen wasn’t to be feared after all.
Yes, before our commenters flip out, we realise the 1984 spot was a shot at IBM, not Microsoft. [cnn]
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That’s $300 million of dirty money, ultimately gained by Bill through illegal and immoral means, screwing the smaller businesses and of course the end user. The only good thing I can see from this is it means a small fraction of his money is leaving his hands and going to people who need it, but would YOU want to accept money, even this much, if it was gained by making the lives of millions of people around the world miserable and broke? I wouldn’t.
The fact that Bill is catering to the needed should be commendable for his humaniterian gesture.Why if he sat and decided not to, who next could do the same? i hope one day he will help liberia from proverty and illeteracy.