For a man giving away all his money, Bill Gates gets people angry. Some are angry for microchips-in-vaccines reasons. Some are angry for perhaps more reasonable reasons. They claim that he has too much power; that he has swapped a monopoly in computing for a monopoly in health; that he is, still, an unaccountable billionaire controlling lives.
Happily there is, he says, a cunning way of rectifying that. Gates sits, rocking slightly disconcertingly back and forth in his chair, in a side room at London’s Science Museum, and outlines his solution. To dilute his power, he explains, other people can just give away money too.
