Growing Older: Gates’ speech a call to action
By Richard Griffin/Growing Older
Jul 25, 2007
Reducing human inequity is the highest possible achievement - That is what this technology wizard told graduating students, alumni and others sitting before him at Harvard’s recent commencement.
Gates looked back over his college career and realizes what his experience lacked. Nobody ever told him how the people of the world really live — that’s what was missing. While in school, he never knew about the huge numbers of children who die every day for lack of easily affordable help. By his own admission, it took him decades to learn these basic facts of life and death.
Gates further said he believed in making market forces work to improve the lot of those who have “no power in the market and no voice in the system.” This he calls “a more creative capitalism”...
Read the full report of his speech from here @ Georgetown Record
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