Thoughts
> Why, when we gave just $50 million, did we become the biggest funder of malaria work? At the time, that was killing 600,000 children.
> What a strange world that the incentive system doesn’t take these resources and assign them to that human thing. That’s a tragedy and a missed opportunity.
When people write about 2025 in history books, they’re going to talk about the greed of the richest technology titans; and they’re going to talk about reducing and eliminating infectious diseases. And the history books aren’t going to make it clear that Bill Gates is leading contributions to eliminate infectious diseases at the exact same time that Elon Musk is working to cut funding for infectious diseases. History books love to talk about the neat chronological progression of ideas, but that’s not what’s happening here. Elon Musk and Bill Gates aren’t following trends created by society. They’re individuals. And you have to say that Elon Musk is evil and Bill Gates is not.