Bill Gates and the end of poverty: The Children of the world will pay for our excesses
“Hunger is not an issue of charity. It is an issue of justice.”
- Jacques Diouf, Food and Agricultural Organization Director-general
On January 24th, 2014 Microsoft chairman Bill Gates told Sky News in England that poverty will disappear by 2035. According to the plutocrat Gates:
“The poor have in fact been doing quite well and people really should feel good about their generosity, their role in helping things like literacy, life expectancy, childhood death rates, go down. That really is an incredible story that I think gets lost and it’s unfortunate. It’s amazing how much progress we’ve made” (http://news.sky.com/story/1200617/bill-gates-progress-on-poverty-amazing).
Gates was talking to Sky from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he was speaking on global development and poverty during the four-day event.
The Microsoft founder also sternly “warned against raising the minimum wage, saying it results in a ‘huge tradeoff’ that can adversely affect households in poverty” (http://overlawyered.com/2014/01/bill-gates-minimum-wage-hikes/).
Well, I guess, well-paying jobs aren’t the answer to poverty – we must rely on the prevarications, sentiments and largess of billionaire plutocrats like Gates to take over the world and become our new monarchical benefactors while we become mired in debt servitude. He and the other members of the tiny one percent will simply keep us strapped on the gurney of low-paid, precarious work and debt until work finally disappears owed to machines. This smacks of neo-feudalism, corporate-cyber style. Hardly creative capitalism.
The Cato Institute (read Koch Brothers) agrees with Gates, of course. Regulation, unions, increases in minimum wages, oversight, transparency all hurt the most progressive in our society (the rich, like Gates), according to the
