As noted in dozens of news stories, Warren Buffett recently pledged to donate $37,000,000,000 to the Gates Foundation charity. I can't see how this can spell anything but disaster.
Bill Gates will devote more time and attention to the Gates Foundation now that he's stepped back from Microsoft, and I believe the gift from Buffett shows that Gates hasn't lost his devotion to gargantuanism and the will to dominate. The Gates Foundation will be by far the largest charity in the world, able to sway governments and utterly crush smaller, rival charities. With Gates at the helm of the Gates Foundation, I anticipate that the ferment and creativity that marked the world of charity and philanthropy — the creativity and competition of disaggregation — will be replaced by the stultifying uniformity and poor results of Gate's Microsoft products.
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