Coming from one of the richest men in the world, that concept is ludicrous. Seriously, his own corporation pays people vastly different amounts of salary based upon their worth to that corporation.
I have no problem with trying to find novel ways to improve the basic well-being of the developing world. But there typically is no magic bullet. What it takes is a market-driven economy to produce the wealth for what we in this country take for granted - clean running water, flush toilets, good roads and a reliable food supply. There are no shortcuts to that. You have to build a society with enough wealth to support such.
Exactly.
All of these “winners” sound like they’re using tens of thousands of dollars of technology. How would that ever be available to all of the billions of human butts in the Third World (or should I say Turd World)?
If people are given these things, then they won't be valued. You only need to look as far as any section 8 housing development right here in the USA to see that much. Ya got people living in their own filth, right here. Medicine (for now) and society (for now) here is developed enough to cover it up.
Gates has a noble idea, but its near worthless in practice.