Bill Gates isn t the first billionaire to try to save the world and he ll fail for the same reasons the robber barons did

Get the Full StoryLike Andrew Carnegie, Gates has reflected a billionaire knows best ideology that does good work but only when it lines up with his priorities.

With the release of his latest book, Bill Gates is enjoying fawning profiles meant to set him apart from other tech billionaires, such as Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg, who have all come under increased scrutiny for their recent turn to the right. While he may not be using technology to further political divisiveness, Gates does have an important kinship with his fellow billionaires, past and present: the paternalistic belief that his fortune, no matter how ill-gotten, is a good thing, because he s using it to save the world.

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