Gates and Buffett spent their fortunes tackling world problems. But there was one that even men of their brains and wealth couldn’t overcome.
I am 42 this year. When I was a kid, I looked at the world’s problems and decided that only a huge amount of wealth and influence could solve them.
Growing up further I begun to feel that global issues like climate change and poverty could only be eradicated by big business, since the motives were much more straightforward than politics and politicians. Give a businessman enough profit, and he will act on solving the problem.
I never got there to do all that. But Bill Gates did. And he proceeded to try and change the world with his massive wealth, spending some 5 billion a year on various philanthropic efforts through his foundation.
However, watching a recent Netflix documentary on Bill Gates, I begun to wonder if I was wrong all these years.
200 million down the toilet
“When Bill Gates stepped down from Microsoft in 2008, he was worth more than 58 billion dollars”
Shortly after his retirement, Gates’ wife Melinda read an article about how children in the developing world were dying at the…
