37% OF BILL GATES’ NET WORTH WOULD END WORLD HUNGER. INSTEAD, HE INVESTS BILLIONS OF DOLLARS INTO CORPORATIONS BLAMED FOR MANY OF THE SAME HEALTH ISSUES THE GATES FOUNDATION SEEKS TO CURE.
The Gates Foundation has investments in sixty-nine of the worst polluting companies in the US and Canada, including Dow Chemical. It holds stakes in pharmaceutical companies whose drugs cost far beyond what most AIDS patients around the world can afford. Other companies in the Foundation’s portfolio have been accused of transgressions including forcing thousands of people to lose their homes; supporting child labor; and defrauding and neglecting patients in need of medical care.

That is ironic! There are ethical stocks that people can invest in but you have to seek them out. And I've never heard of an ethical money market fund that outperformed the less ethical. Raises an interesting question. If most people inherited a million dollars, would they invest it in an ethical money market account with a (for example) 2% return or one that was performing at 8%? There are some issues that are so critical to me such as environment and animal welfare, that I'd have to go for the 2%.

Well for starters, you may have enough money to end world hunger for a day, but being
realistic, ending hunger doesn't happen that way.

To end world hunger, the first thing that needs to be done is to educate people about birth
control and apply money to education, medical, and pharmaceutical. Many poor countries
still today, do not have the appropriate schools and children go without needed education.
They grow up to have child after child after child after child, etc. Just think about it. Think
about one family that has ten children and each of those ten children have ten children and
so on. It becomes explosive and it doesn't take long for that to happen. So then you have
to figure out a way to feed all those people in a country in which there is little jobs, little
money, and little to no agriculture.

Thats what pisses me off about the people that going hunting for trophies. Like that 12
year old girl that killed a giraffe and other animals for no reason other than to say she
did. Animals need to survive because they have the right just like any other human
animal but also because they may become a much needed food source.

Bill Gates does belong to an elite class that automatically donates 20% of all his income
automatically to an organization that uses that money where needed for the poor and
the sick.

Bottomline, in order to wipe out the hunger, we have to wipe out poverty. To wipe
out poverty once and for all, we need to educate, employ, and create food safety nets
like special irrigation systems, new farming techniques, and green houses, etc.

So personally, I think there is a lot more to it than just saying someone has enough
money to stamp out world hunger. It takes a lot of money but it takes more than
money and there has to be a continuation of a perfect cycle.

i thought i was Bill Gates in my dream .... fortunately i wasn't, cos if i am BG, i won't need to join Clixsense and push myself so hard to earn few cents per day. but that would mean an easy life without experiences that could prepare me for the worse - like North Korea gonna attack other nations with their nuclear arms, China "invading" the South China Seas and those terrorists wherever-they-are-hiding. hard work entails sacrifice and patience. having lots of cash in the bank vault doesn't mean you are happy - and i don't think BG is happy at all (I'm pretty sure about that).

Food waste - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Go to travel to see such situation, you will not behave the same with food waste
Child dies every six minutes in Horn of Africa famine - YouTube

valerie wrote: Well for starters, you may have enough money to end world hunger for a day, but being
realistic, ending hunger doesn't happen that way.

To end world hunger, the first thing that needs to be done is to educate people about birth
control and apply money to education, medical, and pharmaceutical. Many poor countries
still today, do not have the appropriate schools and children go without needed education.
They grow up to have child after child after child after child, etc. Just think about it. Think
about one family that has ten children and each of those ten children have ten children and
so on. It becomes explosive and it doesn't take long for that to happen. So then you have
to figure out a way to feed all those people in a country in which there is little jobs, little
money, and little to no agriculture.

Thats what pisses me off about the people that going hunting for trophies. Like that 12
year old girl that killed a giraffe and other animals for no reason other than to say she
did. Animals need to survive because they have the right just like any other human
animal but also because they may become a much needed food source.

Bill Gates does belong to an elite class that automatically donates 20% of all his income
automatically to an organization that uses that money where needed for the poor and
the sick.

Bottomline, in order to wipe out the hunger, we have to wipe out poverty. To wipe
out poverty once and for all, we need to educate, employ, and create food safety nets
like special irrigation systems, new farming techniques, and green houses, etc.

So personally, I think there is a lot more to it than just saying someone has enough
money to stamp out world hunger. It takes a lot of money but it takes more than
money and there has to be a continuation of a perfect cycle.

I completely agree with you.To eradicate poverty,first step that needs to be taken is to educate people..........there is a saying "give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime"...that should be the approach towards eradicating poverty.........education,education,education,all sorts of educations........just giving poor people food,clothes,shelter is not gonna do anything,only suppresses the issue......And getting rid of poverty is a process,it's not gonna go away in 5-10 years,there is no quick fix to it......it will take generations and the process must start at the ground level.......

Not only Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and other billionaires of the world are giving away big chunk of their fortune towards this cause...hope leaders of the world are taking the right steps to kill this monster.

@Asish07 yes that is exactly true.

@charez yes way too much food wasted

People complain about being fat. People spending millions upon millions of dollars
every year on get skinny fast pills and potions. People spending millions and millions
of dollars on exercise equipment. Result: People are fatter than ever before.

Losing weight cost nothing. Keep mouth shut and go for a walk. That is how to lose
weight and instead of spending money on fad diets, send money to a neighbor that
doesn't have enough food to eat.

well said it!

This is true! To lose weight keep your (you know what) out of the refrigerator!! Take the money spent on the junk food and meals you do not need in the first place and donate it. If one donated the cost of one meal per day to the cause it would be a considerable sum. Start local and expand.

hey folks , we are in wrong foot here ....original topis was;;;;

37% OF BILL GATES’ NET WORTH WOULD END WORLD HUNGER. INSTEAD, HE INVESTS BILLIONS OF DOLLARS INTO CORPORATIONS BLAMED FOR MANY OF THE SAME HEALTH ISSUES THE GATES FOUNDATION SEEKS TO CURE.


In short , Bill Gates donates to WRONG COMPANY , WRONG PEOPLE

It won't surprise anyone what my opinion of Gates is. Hint: It's not positive.

I gave him the benefit of the doubt anyway. I'm prepared to give anyone a second chance. Maybe it's even because of the huge damage he caused humanity in the past that he needs to do something positive now to ease the guilt. (For example, if he hadn't held back computer science by a decade, maybe Malariacontrol.net might have already fixed half of these problems).

But then I had a survey, right here, that kept asking me how the foundation affected my perception of Gates himself. Not of the foundation, of the man.

Which, for me, confirms it's nothing to do with altruism and everything to do with self-aggrandized narcissism.

BouldRake wrote: It won't surprise anyone what my opinion of Gates is. Hint: It's not positive.


Which, for me, confirms it's nothing to do with altruism and everything to do with self-aggrandized narcissism.

Maybe it's not altruism or narcissism. Maybe it's a frantic attempt to save their soul if they're feeling a sense of guilt over their insane wealth. There's a quote somewhere in the Bible which indicates it's easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than a rich man. (In which case I should have no problem getting to heaven! )

To finish ... Fact of his .....donation...

The Bill & Melinda Gates “Foundation” is essentially a huge tax-avoidance scheme for enormously-wealthy capitalists who have made billions from exploiting the world’s people. The foundation invests, tax free, money from Gates and the “donations” from others, in the very companies in which Gates owns millions in stocks, thus guaranteeing returns through both sales as well as intellectual-property rights. To add insult to injury, the system perpetuates the spread of disease rather than aids in their eradication, thus perpetually justifying his endeavors to “eradicate” them (solving a problem they are creating).



Fact .....every 1.00 dollar he ...donate .... earns him a bit over 10.00 dollars in profit

Amen...tasman1 has spoken