Bill Gates : Hung Up On Redundant Humans

Bill Gates retires today at age 52. He's one of the wealthiest at app. $52 billion. He plans to spend the rest of his life giving away the money that he spent the first part of his life accumulating. I wonder. When did it occur to him that making money as a goal was not all it was cracked up to be? He's joined in his philanthropic plans by the worlds richest-Warren Buffett. Like Bill, he is giving all his money away and will use Bill's personal foundation as the executor. Presumably Warren has second thoughts about wealth as a goal .But he is somewhat suspect. Because at 78 of years age, he is running up against the "can't take it with you" proverb.

How and where is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation going to spend the combined philanthropic fortune? It looks like Bill is headed back to Africa. We all came out of Africa some 50,000 years ago. Bill is a descendant of one of the more adventuresome primates that left Africa. He's going back to help the more "stay at home" Africans that never left the continent.

Malnutrition is the biggest killer in Africa. Bill plans on spending the bulk of the money on feeding the underfed. And then what Bill? It's easier to have children than to feed children. The stay at home Africans never quite grasped that truism. It's ironic. Bill Gates has become fabulously wealthy by replacing hard-working people with software and effectively making them redundant. But now he wants to spend the profit from that enterprise in a de facto breeding program of particularly redundant people who can't feed their own redundant children.

Microsoft's Bill Gates , African Aid & The Dependency Problem

Ask Bill Gates how best to help Africa with it's chronic malnutrirtion and sexually transmitted disease problem and he will tell you about the "Red Campaign". He pushed that campaign at Davos, Switzerland the other day. Simply the participating companies in the campaign which also includes, Apple, American Express, Dell and others donate a portion of the sales price of " Red Campaign" logo products to the Global Fund which targets Africa's social maladies.

Since the 1960's aid to Africa from outside sources is now totaled well over $700 billion. Yet, Africa's woes have only grown and Africans have become ever more dependent on outside aid. Of course Bill knows and relies on dependency from customers who make a habit of buying Microsoft's products to solve their personal computing needs. But aiding the breeding of dependent generations of Africans indefinietly is a blueprint for disaster.

Bill must learn that people who are dependent on Microsoft's computing ware at least know what question to ask of the software. It seems that many Africans still don't even wonder or ask how to stop overpopulation or the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.

Halo 3, Xbox, Wii & Stunted Personal Growth

Recently Microsoft's Halo 3 game propelled quarterly Xbox sales to 527,800. This total eclipsed Nintendo's Wii 501,000 sales figure. Video game revenue which includes portable games and accessories totaled $ 1.36 billion. That's up a whopping 74% from last years comparison.

Is the time and money spent in this voyeuristic, masturbation of life creating a cultural , physical and mentally stunted individual? How many hours and days away from the natural world and away from conversation and human interaction have been lost? And at what cost?

How do you reach these increasingly isolated people? Here's an idea. How about some enterprising hackers introducing subliminal messages in the software which asks, " Is this the best way to live a life?"