14 DAY TRIAL // Gates? Bill Gates? philanthropist? Well, let's be fare, it's actually something like this:
- William H Gates III, age 47, but you can call him Bill, he won't mind. Really! Go ahead! - Occupation: billionaire, future-ex monopolist a.k.a. phil-Bill; - Net Worth: 40.7 billion dollars = the richest man in the known Universe (this includes China); - Marital Status: married to Melinda, nice lady, got knocked-up a couple of times though, but nice nonetheless, has Africa and AIDS under hobbies on her resume; - Studies: Harvard University, Drop Out - there's a lesson in there somewhere; we'll just say that William H Gates III knows value and probably figured out the value of a Harvard education. Right now he would have 41, 7 billion dollars hadn't it been for all that time wasted on a degree; - Future prospects: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
And a 29 billion dollars foundation makes for a lot of philanthropy. This while serving as redemption grounds for the worlds' top monopolist. Well, others found Buddha in the way to Tibet - California, up the street from Beverly Hills, make a right, than a left, there's a U-turn and a 2 meter high gold statue of a fat guy with a smile and swastika on his face, you can't miss it; Allah was spotted in Manhattan on a holyday tour to visit the World Trade Center twins back in 2001, what an explosive event that was (!); Jesus was on E-bay one day, some found that he came back in a potato others in a piece of plaster from a wall, both were on sale for 5.99; Benedict was a dedicated member of a fresh an trendy group of young get-goers known as the Hitler Youth but had a shift in his career and is now Pope model 265, compact-Holly class and involved in harvesting all Jesus related vegetables on E-bay.
So there are the precedents to William H Gates III turning philanthropist and , in some way, they all related to capitalism. In truth, Bill's trip to Africa in 2008 started all the way back in 2000 when he renounced the CEO position in favor of Steve Ballmer and this trajectory has been evolutionary ever since culminating with his two year transition out of Microsoft. The Redmond Company has become a stagnant capitalist mass whose momentum is about to run out, and Bill is part of the problem, not of the solution so he will consequently step down.
Onwards to Africa? Let's be fare! 29 billion dollars will buy a lot of vaccine? So William H Gates III is the closest any African will ever come to God. A wealthy, giving, generous, capitalist God. Wait! It's not their fault! It really isn't! Some of the people there had rhythm and blues and soul and went on the boat ride and now are famous rappers. But some didn't. They call the Third World home, their best asset is a Kalashnikov, from a AK-47 to an AK-100 that is passed from generation to generation every two years or so and they fight poverty, malaria, AIDS, polio (I could go on for a couple of pages). So they need Bill's 29 billion dollars worth of vaccine and in turn William H Gates III needs them to redeem his image and to shake off all Microsoft in his system.
And Microsoft needs to be less and less associated with William H Gates III who has come to represent the past and isn't a healthy standard for the Company's image.
Before he left, blogger Robert Scoble, the Redmond Company's top spokesman, used his widely praised editorial technique to make his intimate life synonymous with Microsoft's PR strategy, even turning his dead mother into a propaganda tool, this proving to be a critically acclaimed move. In conclusion, what Microsoft really needs in order to step up its stock and its image is dead or otherwise deceased women - must be natural mothers, comatose patients will not suffice, grandmothers will be considered only as a temporary solution.
Q.E.D.