B. Gates has that amount on his credit card. He spends some to find new medicines. But seriously, aren't there any better things to do with it? Ofcourse a disease is bad if you have one (and you're not old yet), but don't we already have too much people on Earth anyway? Shouldn't we deal with the current problems of resources, BEFORE increasing the population (and thereby increasing resources related problems; if not only looked at the fresh water problem)?
Especially on the long term, are any global advantages to live 90 or more years bigger then the disadvantages?
2007-01-19 02:55:05 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment
I'd buy that little island country off the coast of England. The $50M would only be a down payment, so after I bought it, I'd have to develop some sort of economy there.
2007-01-22 02:04:37 · answer #1 · answered by Wire Tapped 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gates is primarily interested in education. Most of his donation is going to education, with less going to health care.
It is a free country and we have no right to tell other people how to spend their money. I would rather live in a free but polluted world than in a nice clean dictatorship. Especially since the dictator would probably not care about the environment at all. At least no dictator ever has!
The #1 thing I would do with that money is use it for space flight. I would fly in space myself. I would fund good ideas for space development, like SpaceX. And I would fund alternative energy research, especially some of the less accepted and far out fusion reactor ideas. All space enthusiasts are alternative energy enthusiasts, because there is no oil in space.
2007-01-19 11:00:59 · answer #2 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
first of all no he doesnt that is what he is worth taking into account his company, houses etc (assets) and secondly leave him alone he set up a foundation for a disease that is practially wiping out 3rd world countries and is helping to cure it by getting money of others and donating large ammounts of his own money quite often. so shut up and go bother someone who doesnt help a bit
2007-01-19 11:07:45 · answer #3 · answered by james s 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would move somewhere where I didn't have to listen to celebrities blathering on about things they know nothing about such as global warming, world affairs, politics, etc.
2007-01-19 11:51:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'd squander it.
2007-01-19 11:07:31 · answer #5 · answered by higg1966 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋