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To: Pigboy who wrote (101790)	3/30/2000 8:36:00 AM
From: Ibexx	Respond to of 186894

PG, the "original": Bill Gates had said in a prior interview that it would be harder to dismantle his wealth in a meaningful way than to build it. I think it was a honest statement on his part. I suppose he would now devote a good part of his life to accomplish the latter. Ibexx

To: Pigboy who wrote (101790)	4/1/2000 1:23:00 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

OT --- Yes, it's fun to speculate what one would do with a lot of money like that. First thing I would do is to buy a country and adapt its tax laws to my needs. Awful to have to pay capital gains taxes when you spend. Then freed of that burden, I would establish a series of million dollar prizes to reward advances in science and the arts for which even dead people would be eligible. I would establish a really great university where only scientific truth was learned and taught, where intelligence and discovery in students and teachers was rewarded sufficiently that they would have to be poor or work at meaningless jobs. No businessmen or preachers on the board -- only scientists. Freedom of speech and research absolute. No football -- only chess and bridge. Research ships and aircraft. A really great teaching hospital. Hundreds of science-based startups for those who want to get rich. A first class theater and cinema program. A great teaching symphony orchestra and conservatory. A dozen opera productions a year with the companies and orchestras sent on subsidized world tours. A continuing project of digital recording of history with alternative treatments of uncertain periods. A repertory classic theatre touring the world with their best productions. Every class and lecture available free over the web. I'd support medical training everywhere. Put a professor of nursing and of medicine supported by the National Library of Medicine and a huge cheap pharmacy in very city and most sizeable villages to teach people how to care for their own diseases. I'd distribute condoms free everywhere and have my professors teach safe sex. I'd dispense free anti-AIDs drugs to everyone who is HIV positive. I'd (jointly with the workers) would buy control of GM and revolutionize the manufacture of non-polluting vehicles. I would find out what makes kids turn to violent crime and fix it. Why, I'd do such things ... but Gates has, I'm afraid, a limited imagination. If I were he, I'd simply buy the presidency (it's not too late -- he could buy the reform party nomination), purchase 218 representatives and 50 senators and make this a better place. I'd make Rehnquist an offer he couldn't refuse and make some Harvard law professor Chief Justice. Joel Klein would dance on a string.