Creative Capitalism is a fascinating venture from Michael Kinsley and my friend Conor Clarke that "takes as its starting point a speech Bill Gates delivered this January at the World Economic Forum in Davos" and hopes to develop into a book of smart reflections and debates around the central idea. At the moment the ground has been seeded by some of the great minds of the center-right but the pool of contributors is going to expand and random submissions are welcome. Eventually, a book will result.
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Creative Capitalism
27 Jun 2008 11:41 am
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That is an astonishingly bad list of contributers. What the hell do they want out of such a book? Curmudgeonly new-republic style faux contrarians get together and only a little indirectly talk about how great rich white people are, is what they'll get. With really bad history thrown in too.
Curmudgeonly new-republic style faux contrarian
I think your first thought nailed the content, but the obvious answer is that they want a cut of the millions of money Tom Friedman has hauled writing BS about the capitalism.
They'll have dinner party, write down some crappy metaphors and watch the money pour in.
they want a cut of the millions of money Tom Friedman has hauled writing BS about the capitalism.
Cut Matty Y. a slice of that pie!
I'm glad to see the wunderkind's back in the game. Now he's an Atlantic Fellow, after successful runs at, let's see, TNR, TAP, Guardian, Washington Monthly, and CAP, plus contributions to Slate, Tom Paine, etc. What does he need to complete the set? Next year, I predict, the Nation and New America will be fighting over him...
I love worshiping at the alter of Bill Gates: I bet they tell us "we" need more education--that solves it all. Creative!
Maybe if the Conservative Media didn't spend so much time covering up the good that China and Russia are doing for the AIDS crisis in Africa, we'd see the US actually pick up its feet and do something.
If Kinsley and Clarke wanted to create something new and useful, they'd add the likes of Kim Stanley Robinson. Facific Edge illustrates a scenario when wealth is allowed to accumulate, but not too much.
Isn't Kim Stanley Robinson a sci-fi writer? I think that might be a bit of a stretch. But please, if you think our list of contributors is crummy, suggest others. Or write something yourself. (You can get yourself a slice of that delicious Tom Friedman pie.)
Send anything you like to me at conorjclarke [at] gmail [dot] com.
Anybody basing anything on anything Bill Gates has ever said is a moron.
Bill Gates is supposed to be some big charity guy because his Gates Foundation has more billions than most other charities.
What people don't realize is that almost all of it is invested in attempts to control or influence other companies, and the Foundation barely issues enough actual cash to charities to be considered a charity under Federal law.
Look it up. Go to their Web site and see exactly how much money over how many years in the FUTURE is being handed out compared to their capitalization.
It's a stock laundering scam and an investment vehicle. Nothing more. Just like most rich people charities.
Mrs. Gates is starting a big new campaign to get every child in America into college, even though Mr. Gates found college to be a waste of his time.
I don't know about overseas, but within America, the Gates Foundation is basically a force for screwing over lower IQ people. But, they've got $60 billion, which buys a lot of fawning press coverage (see above).
check out this story on the land of creative capitalism ...
http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=42851
check out this story on the land of creative capitalism ...
http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=42851
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Creative Capitalism.
Is that like Free Market Communism?
Posted by gregor | June 27, 2008 12:00 PM