What to make of Bill Gates?

Bill Gates uses his power to advance neoliberal economics and industrial agriculture, thus helping to fuel poverty and destroy the natural environment, which in turn fuels the creation of new diseases, and damages our health as we are all increasingly forced to eat chemical-ridden, mass produced food.

He, and other billionaires, have a disastrous influence on the world.

I find it extremely dangerous that he is one of the biggest donors to the World Health Organization. ‪This will surely help ensure that it focuses on health issues without looking at what is the root cause of many of those health issues - the neoliberal, corporate imperialism, that Gates & co impose on the world.‬

Gates has said that he wants to reduce unsustainable population growth in poor regions of the world. But that poverty and population growth - people reproduce more, when they are desperate - is fueled by the corporate imperialism that Bill Gates' foundation pushes.

And why is that population growth so unsustainable? Because the corporations destroy the livelihoods of locals; stealing their farmland and replacing it with environmentally devastating industrial agriculture, to produce unhealthy food to export to rich countries.

But now he supposedly wants to help all these people by vaccinating them all against diseases (that he helps to fuel)?

I'm not going to pretend to know what goes through the mind of Bill Gates, and what his motivations are. Is he some kind of evil mastermind desperate to advance his power and control the world with AI? Or is he just lost, ignorant, in denial? Whatever the case, the more power his ilk have, the less hope there is of real change. They'll keep us focussed on the symptoms when we need to be focussing on the underlying disease: neoliberal globalization, aka corporate imperialism.

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This new article by The Grayzone is probably the best left-wing critique of Gates I've read.

See here for the influence that Gates has over the media. 

See here for his influence in agriculture. 

Also watch this - The malaria business: Big pharma vs natural medicine.