{"id":4975,"date":"2011-10-13T10:01:14","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T15:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=4975"},"modified":"2011-10-13T10:01:14","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T15:01:14","slug":"evil-bill-gates-occupied-saves-hundreds-of-thousands-from-hiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/culture\/evil-bill-gates-occupied-saves-hundreds-of-thousands-from-hiv\/","title":{"rendered":"“Evil” Bill Gates Occupied, Saves Hundreds Of Thousands From HIV"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google “Bill Gates is Evil” and you get a whole lot of results going over all the horrible, terrible things that Gates has done. People don’t like his business practices,<\/a> his public persona, or his products<\/a>. Fine, but I personally think evil is oversimplifying.<\/p>\n

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Awesome Simpsons moments notwithstanding.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The concept of “this businessman is BAD and everything he touches is EVIL” is a needlessly reductive cliche. As a comic book fan, it reminds me of when Bill Jemas was running Marvel. Everything that happened that fans didn’t like was his fault (Marville<\/em>, Mark Waid fired off Fantastic Four) and everything they liked either quietly ignored or credited to people “fighting” him (Milligan and Allred’s X-Force<\/em>, the Ultimate line, the relaunch of the Avengers franchise). It’s happening now with DC Comics and Dan Didio, and it happened with Jim Shooter, Bob Harras, and pretty much any other publisher or editor in chief I can think of. People need a pinata.<\/p>\n

Is Mr. Gates perfect? Hardly. Is he Satan? I don’t know about that. Would Satan found the Bill And Melinda Gates Foundation<\/a>?<\/p>\n

The Gates Foundation is also in the news currently due to being Occupied<\/a> by local homeless, who are looking to get support for local shelters. It seems like a no-brainer for the Foundation, but one wonders why such drastic steps had to be taken in the first place.<\/p>\n

Dedicated to funding causes that the Gates family is passionate about, the Gates Foundation has recently been credited with saving over 100,000 Indians<\/a>. As the article notes, the foundation has deriders who are not thrilled with the Gates-funded Avahan-project, saying that it’s throwing money at treating infections instead of preventing them, and the Indian government will be taking it over soon. However, it’s an impressive stat and something to keep in mind the next time you hear someone call Bill Gates (or indeed, any other CEO)\u00a0 the Devil.<\/p>\n

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It does make for some snazzy desktops though.<\/p><\/div>\n

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