Bill Gates Expected to Create Billion-Dollar Fund for Clean Energy

[ErikJ]

9. I'm not so cynical of Gates

I think he truly cares about his commitments. After all he has been calling for higher taxes on the super-rich and even sponsored a bill in Washington state for an income tax on the rich over $250,000 per yr, which FAILED because Koch front groups killing it.

His Bill and Mel Gates Found. #1 goal is women education and empowerment which has proven to be the best way to slow birth and over-population. ( I like to think I turned them onto this when I emailed them in the 1990's about this phenomenon when they had just begun the foundation. They emailed me back thanking them for the suggestion. )

His US education efforts might be a bit misguided but I think he (being a genius) is understably appalled at the lack of good education in the US with its very high drop out rate.