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Gates' donations are invested in problems that should have been dealt with by governments, whose tax money is spent instead on the semi-corrupt self interests of their leaders and their business cronies,[0] an economic-social structure which contributed much to the way in which Gates and other Global business billionaires have made their fortune. It's a twisted system, and conscience-cleansing philantropy by its current and past players only brings back a small portion of what should have been invested in the first place.

[0] http://www.wikileaks-forum.com/index.php/topic,5320.msg22368...

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Conscience cleaning philanthropy, because he is responsible for so many deaths! Come on, this makes us sound silly.

Microsoft clippy? Windows XP update auto-restarts? The Microsoft Genuine Premium Plus Advantage Home Starter Business Pro Certified Product Activator? The Zune?

Are these not some of the greatest atrocities afflicted on mankind?

"Gates' donations are invested in problems that should have been dealt with by governments"

-- What leads you to believe this? Do you think government is the most efficient way to solve these problems? Do you think Government has a responsibility to solve these problems? Why?

Based on what I have observed, government tends to be very inefficient when it comes to solving problems. Problems tend to be solved much more efficiently when individuals use their own resources to solve them.

Reading the rest of your comment, it appears you are advocating for a different sort of government/economic-social structure- perhaps a form that does not currently exist or has never existed. If so, you could simply state what you are advocating for, rather than criticizing the current system while offering no alternate solutions.

Because the rise of Microsoft caused malaria. Your logic here is fantastic.

If governments use, in your words, tax money on semi-corrupt self interests then how would have taxing Bill Gates at a higher solved any of the problems you think should be handled by government? If governments are going to be inefficient and corrupt with a little money they are going to be inefficient and corrupt with a lot of money.

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