Bill Gates Isn’t Calling For Kinder Capitalism — He’s Calling For Better Understanding Of Capitalism
25th January 2008
Read it. And you can believe as much or as little of that as you care to.
Just because Bill Gates has a lot of money doesn’t make him an expert economist, or a political philosopher. The same goes for Warren Buffet, although I’ll listen to Buffet when it comes to business analysis, since he has a good track record there. Bill Gates doesn’t even have all that good a track record in IT, much less Econ.
I wish non-socialist people would just quit using the term “capitalism”, a word invented by Marxists that operates entirely within their little sandbox of a focus on production. The free market is not about production and never has been; it’s about distribution, unrestricted exchange, and I wish there were a good term for that. “Freemarketarian” is about as close as I’ve seen, and it’s pretty ugly.
January 26th, 2008 at 00:17
Marketarian? Marketist?