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  • creepycoug
    creepycoug Member Posts: 24,494

    Bill Gates is a very smart man...and the epitome of a Bond villain. Kinda frightening...

    I haven't gotten quite there with him. No, I don't think he's a saint; I think he acts selfishly in that he's smart enough to know that even with all his money, the broader condition of the world he lives in matters.

    And in that respect, I think he acts out of what he thinks in the greater good. What I do worry about with him is this: he built something massive from nothing, is used to kicking ass and taking names and acting directly without a lot of checks to get done what he wants to get done. I see that same approach in him today. Coupled with the fact that he is a smart dude, but has also had praise lauded on him for most of his life about how smart he is, and has operated in a space in which the world hangs on his every word.

    That kind of guy is still capable of being wrong, he doesn't know everything, he has vices and biases like the rest of us, and he is able to just pick his experts and run. In that sense, yes, I think Gates can be dangerous.

    The short version of this essay is: Gates hasn't, to my knowledge, been humbled very often in his life. He's right all the time because his legions of sychophants tell him so.
  • EwaDawg
    EwaDawg Member Posts: 4,498

    Bill Gates is a very smart man...and the epitome of a Bond villain. Kinda frightening...

    I haven't gotten quite there with him. No, I don't think he's a saint; I think he acts selfishly in that he's smart enough to know that even with all his money, the broader condition of the world he lives in matters.

    And in that respect, I think he acts out of what he thinks in the greater good. What I do worry about with him is this: he built something massive from nothing, is used to kicking ass and taking names and acting directly without a lot of checks to get done what he wants to get done. I see that same approach in him today. Coupled with the fact that he is a smart dude, but has also had praise lauded on him for most of his life about how smart he is, and has operated in a space in which the world hangs on his every word.

    That kind of guy is still capable of being wrong, he doesn't know everything, he has vices and biases like the rest of us, and he is able to just pick his experts and run. In that sense, yes, I think Gates can be dangerous.

    The short version of this essay is: Gates hasn't, to my knowledge, been humbled very often in his life. He's right all the time because his legions of sychophants tell him so.
    Creep, I agree on Gates.

    Assuming there is no middle, do you think Gates (at this point in his life) is a right leaning leftist or a left leaning conservative?

    Or a conservative trying to appear leftist or even a leftist playing conservative?







  • HoustonHusky
    HoustonHusky Member Posts: 6,026
    Jennifer Granholm is not a serious person.