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How many more billionaires than those that you've named has it produced?

What about Exxon, AT&T, Aetna, AIG, Goldman, DuPont Chemical, Lockheed, McKinsey?

There's a pretty obvious bias there: the ones you name do good because you named the ones who do good. (which, really, you could examine: how much of that perception is PR?)

We're not lucky to have billionaires. We'd be just as well if there were none at all.



The 100 million children alive today because of the work of the Gates foundation would not though.




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