tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post5763882337830013611..comments2024-03-28T19:47:39.985-04:00Comments on CURMUDGUCATION: Bill Gates: "I was pretty naive"Peter Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16511193640285760299noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-20208202728721997732014-12-28T17:20:31.076-05:002014-12-28T17:20:31.076-05:00“It would be great if our education stuff worked, ... “It would be great if our education stuff worked, but that we won’t know for probably a decade.” –Bill Gates<br />We're nothing but lab rats to him,ChrisGuerrierihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04200461704984560238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-48073551050629189552014-12-28T01:25:26.836-05:002014-12-28T01:25:26.836-05:00This formulation is wrong, Peter.
"Gates is a...This formulation is wrong, Peter.<br />"Gates is a technocrat with a deep commitment to techno-solutions to problems." <br /><br />No. Gates has never been an engineer, and finding solutions to problems is a false front. You're giving him a free ride, and not even referring to the public central tenet of his "philanthropy". He claims, right in your face, that corporate profits are the only possible driver of progress for the world's disenfranchised majority, and he demands ideological obedience to that tenet. Are we really too cowardly to call him on it?<br /><br />His contribution to world health and to public education is to make himself the richest man in the world through political leverage, lobbying, regulatory capture, and extortion. He donated a privately controlled a data-analysis center in Seattle, through which he demanded and got control of the world's public health efforts, and he turned the World Health Organization into an administrative apparatus for his own corporate global domination.<br /><br />Gates is a monopolist, and his commitment is to profit through market domination. His insistence on "market-driven" education reform and "market-driven" health in the third world aren't naive, data-driven, or technological. They're just hypocritical. chemtchrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08983388475654325999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-67073348313527920342014-12-26T19:26:11.919-05:002014-12-26T19:26:11.919-05:00Is it possible that Gates went looking for educati...Is it possible that Gates went looking for education experts and just found the wrong ones, or the wrong ones found him first?Snavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00791842506865658394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-67250211725334423752014-12-26T19:07:13.877-05:002014-12-26T19:07:13.877-05:00That's why it would be better to tax the rich ...That's why it would be better to tax the rich more and have that money put to better use, as long as decisions on how to use it are made at the local level. We don't need government OR corporate mandates.Rebecca deCocahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13168718846105012814noreply@blogger.com