Bill Gates: World’s Richest Capitalist, Globalist, Socialist

Item: The Atlantic magazine for November 2015 features a much-quoted interview with Microsoft founder Bill Gates, the world’s richest man, focusing on the supposed “crisis” of global warming and the incessantly repeated claim that hydrocarbon fuel use must be drastically curtailed, if not eliminated. Entitled “We Need an Energy Miracle,” the article’s subtitle informs us that “Bill Gates has committed his fortune to moving the world beyond fossil fuels and mitigating climate change.”

Among other things, Gates advocates global taxes on fossil fuels and massive increases in government spending for research and development in the energy sector. He advocates a push-pull strategy for central planning by government — guided by experts, such as himself. “The push is the R&D,” Gates told Atlantic president and editor-in-chief James Bennet during the interview. “The pull is the carbon tax.” The high-tech mogul, who has more faith in government than the free market, says: “Yes, the government will be somewhat inept — but the private sector is in general inept.”

Correction: Like any other private citizen, Bill Gates should be free to spend his money as he sees fit. However, his recent headline grabbing and his popularity with the coercive utopians of the Left are the result of his ebullient support for spending other people’s money to further his globalist green agenda. And that agenda just happens to coincide with the United Nations’ plan for a new socialist order for the planet. The fact that he is a super-wealthy techno-geek does not make him an oracle on issues related to either economics or science.

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