Bill Gates, still the richest man
p2pnet.net news:- The rich are getting even richer with Microsoft’s Bill Gates and his friend, Warren Buffet, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc, right at the top of the heap.
“Gates’ fortune rose $6 billion to $56 billion last year, while Buffett garnered in an additional $10 billion to boost his net worth to $52 billion,” says Associated Press.
How much money can one human being use?
Gates and Buffet are called philanthropists, donating to causes they or theirs designate while the mind-boggling fortunes they’ve accumulated increase exponentially, with no effort on their part.
Forbes celebrates them as something wonderful, together with 944 other billionaires, saying their combined wealth has grown 35% since last year to $3.5 trillion.
That’s an unimaginable amount. It has no meaning. But neither does one billion, come to that, especially when one considers there are hundreds of millions of people around the world living, if one can call it that, in absolute povery, and with no hope of salvation in this lifetime.
Something is very badly wrong somewhere.
Also See:
Associated Press – Gates, Buffett Top Billionaires Ranking, March 9, 2007
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March 9th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
“Something is very badly wrong somewhere.”
Yes, the rules (laws) that contOl trade are made by the powerful, the wealthy or their accountants, lobbies and lawyers.
It’s ca;;ed CAPITALISM.
Some call it a DISGRACE.
Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com
March 9th, 2007 at 4:34 pm
Jon, you’re absolutely 100%, completely, totally right.
You could say I’m a complete anti-capitalist. I hate hearing how the next A-list celebrity is demanding $25 million for their next movie; how Gates’s fortune rose by any number of billions. You could feed a small country with the amount of money these people make.
In fact, I hate hearing about any huge corporation who’s unveiled yet massive profits. I’m more interested in what they do with those profits that benefits those less fortunate?
So when the RIAA starts suing normal families who only just make a living anyway, I have to ask, what sort of animals are you, because you can’t possibly be human?
March 9th, 2007 at 7:38 pm
“You could feed a small country with the amount of money these people make.”
You could BUY a small country with the amount of money these people make!
March 10th, 2007 at 3:43 am
I absolutely agree Jon. It’s called unrestrained capitalism, and it and the unbridled greed it allows to flourish will be the death of western civilization. There are laws against nearly every human fault, except greed. Someone that accumulates such obscene amounts of wealth as Gates and Buffet isn’t seen in the same light as a rapist, murderer, or a thief. They’re seen as a hero, despite the fact that through their enormous amounts of wealth, they victimize millions of people. And that is very, very wrong.
March 10th, 2007 at 7:15 am
Bill Gates is richest man 13 time in a row,You can get more information at http://www.billgatesmicrosoft.com/netwoth.htm
April 9th, 2007 at 8:04 pm
Victimize , like how?