He may not know jujitsu or have a rocket-proof car, but he has saved nearly 6 million lives through philanthropic activities.
Bill Gates is no Steve Jobs. He’s not a charismatic showman or
messianic artist-technologist. He’s something arguably better than that:
He’s an action hero. Who else but a comic-book superhuman could claim
credit for saving nearly six million lives? Such is the argument made by
a handsome infographic created by Frugaldad.com called "Redefining Action Hero: Bill Gates is Better than Batman." (Actually it’s more like one of those long-scrolling graphic slideshows than a true infographic, but we’ll let this one slide.)
Obviously, Bill Gates didn’t literally save every one of those lives
with his own two bare hands; Frugal Dad is making a point about the
impact of Gates’s philanthropic organization, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,
which is dedicated to (among other things) eradicating diseases like
malaria, whooping cough, and yellow fever. According to the sources
cited, Mr. Gates’s philanthropic giving is directly responsible for
saving 5,812,000 lives "by bringing vaccines and improved health care to
children internationally"--and possibly 7.6 million by 2019, "all
children under five." When you put it that way, Gates sounds better than
Superman, Jesus, and Santa Claus put together, not just Batman.
It’s rather amazing that Gates has given $28 billion to charity so
far, $2 billion more than the U.S. budget for foreign aid--part of a
commitment to disbursing at least half his entire net worth within his
own lifetime. But it’s not only about writing checks. According to the
graphic, Gates created a multiplier on his own capital in the form of
The Gavi Alliance, which brings the influence of UNICEF, the United
Nations, and the World Bank to bear on pharmaceutical companies with the
goal of getting them to lower the cost of lifesaving drugs. Cheaper
vaccines mean more people (especially children) in developing nations
don’t die of diseases the rest of us never have to worry about. The
alliance successfully pushed the cost of a rotavirus vaccine down by
99%.
Not to be a jerk, but there’s no record of Steve Jobs--the saint to
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by bad people : but, the silence over that by the good people. (Martin Luther King.Jr) ၀မ္းနည္းစရာအေကာင္းဆုံးကလူဆုိးေတြ လူသြမ္းေတြရဲ့ရက္စက္ယုတ္မာမႈ့မဟုတ္ပဲ လူေကာင္းေတြကျငိမ္ခံေနျခင္းသာျဖစ္တယ္....
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