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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(119,881 posts)
Mon Feb 10, 2025, 04:49 PM Feb 10

On why (Bill) Gates doesn't have a rocket company, like fellow billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos: [View all]

This is about the 4th paragraph down
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As fascinating as it is to know what’s out there … I watched all that Carl Sagan stuff … the thing that caught my attention was why were children dying? When we gave $20 million to malaria, which at the time was killing a million children a year, we became the largest funders in malaria. I think SpaceX is amazing … but for me the thing what’s really compelling is that millions of children (are) now surviving, but because of what we’re doing with nutrition, they are thriving.

https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2025/02/09/bill-gates-book-source-code.html

Just thought it was an interesting comparison of priorities.

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