Microsoft founder Bill Gates as urged billionaires to follow his own example and give away their wealth to charitable causes, suggesting that they might even get to like it.
Gates has used much of the personal wealth accumulated through Microsoft to form and support the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, an organisation focused on the eradication of some of the major diseases threatening people across the planet in all walks of life.
In a forum at Oslo’s Opera House, Bill & Melinda Gates spoke of their passion for the foundation and the progress that has already been made, saying that the eradication of Polio, for instance, was in reach and that every effort should be made to ensure that the disease is wiped out.
“We have to get rid of polio because if we don’t, it will spread back and we will have millions affected,” he said.
Melinda Gates said that eradicating HIV/AIDS was a top priority and that a vaccine against the disease would be the ‘Holy Grail’ for AIDS, while Bill suggested that it would probably be 10 to 15 years before that would happen.
Earlier Bill Gates had said that he was a great believer that great wealth should go from the richest to the poorest and suggested that other billionaires should try it.
“I think all billionaires should give away the vast majority of their fortunes – though I don’t say they shouldn’t leave anything to their kids, I think they would enjoy it, their kids would be better off, and the world would be better off.”
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