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I have always wanted to know.

What does Bill Gates want for the world?

He's in India helping Polio efforts [1] and helping distribute mosquito nets in Africa. [2]

What does his philanthropic soul want, in the end and in the larger scheme of things?

Has he ever expressed this or laid out?

There wasn't much in his AMA on Reddit a while ago. [3]

[1] http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230330950...

[2] http://www.kplu.org/post/bill-gates-vs-mosquitoes-whos-winni...

[3] http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/18bhme/im_bill_gates_c...

"Here’s My Plan to Improve Our World — And How You Can Help" from 10 days ago: http://www.wired.com/business/2013/11/bill-gates-wired-essay...

"We take a double-pronged approach: (1) Narrow the gap so that advances for the rich world reach the poor world faster, and (2) turn more of the world’s IQ toward devising solutions to problems that only people in the poor world face."

There was an interesting profile in Forbes about how he saw improving access to birth control, eliminating childhood and early adult mortality, and improving education both here and abroad as ways of leading to decreased populations and increased wealth and happiness.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2011/11/02/the-sec...

He made his mission pretty clear. He believes every human life has equal value. He wants to make basic services and liberties the developed world takes for granted available to every human being on planet Earth. He's applying his wealth and expertise to high impact projects that can make that a reality.

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/What-We-Do

I remember he made a comment (can't remember where) that he chooses projects which are likely to have the greatest impact per dollar, or something to that effect. You'll have to find the source yourself, though.

He gives where he think it can do the most good the most efficiently. Specifically, his major goals seem to be global disease reduction and elimination.

The Bill Gates Foundation is positioning itself in line with organizations such as the World Health Organization. Or at least that's how I see it.

i'm sure gates, with his ambition, wants to be all of the below, and more:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockefeller_Foundation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Corporation_of_New_Yor... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._and_Catherine_T._MacArt... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_and_Flora_Hewlett_Found... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_and_Lucile_Packard_Founda...

Try stuff from him & Warren Buffet on Charlie Rose. All interviews are available on the website.

Seems like he wants to eradicate diseases, which is a pretty great plan. Polio, malaria, and now presumably AIDS and other STDs.

Why do rich white men develop condoms for Africa? So that there will be fewer black people. He's just like his father, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ6mjx4J7dM

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