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Bill Gates says China has created brand-new form of capitalism (and praises Communist leaders)
Agence France Presse ^ | January 29, 2005

Posted on 01/29/2005 1:07:29 AM PST by HAL9000

China has created brand-new form of capitalism: Bill Gates

DAVOS, Switzerland, (AFP) - US software giant Bill Gates has high praise for China, which he says has created a brand-new form of capitalism that benefits consumers more than anything has in the past.

"It is a brand-new form of capitalism, and as a consumer its the best thing that ever happened," Gates told an informal meeting late Friday at the World Economic Forum in this ski resort.

He characterised the Chinese model in terms of "willingness to work hard and not having quite the same medical overhead or legal overhead".

Manufacturers have created "scale economies that are just phenomenal", in part owing to companies there and elsewhere on the planet designing good products, Gates said.

Looking ahead, he added: "You know they haven't run out of labor yet, the portion that can come out of the agriculture sector" was still considerable.

"It's not like Korea, Korea got to a point where, boom, the wages went up a lot," he said, adding "that's good, you know, they got rich and now they have to add value at a different level.

"They're closer to the United States in that sense than they are to where China is right now."

Gates continued by heaping praise on the current generation of Chinese leaders.

"They're smart," he said with emphasis.

"They have this mericratic way of picking people for these government posts where you rotate into the university and really think about state allocation of resources and the welfare of the country and then you rotate back into some bureaucratic position."

That rotation continued, Gates explained, and leaders were constantly subjected to various kinds of ratings.

"This generation of leaders is so smart, so capable, from the top down, particularly from the top down," he concluded.



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To: EGPWS
However, I might say, the average Chinese isn't superior to the average American, their mind set toward fulfillment through work is however.

That is what I really meant to say, but I didn't do a good job at all in conveying it, thanks for picking up the slack, and giving me the chance explain.

101 posted on 01/29/2005 4:04:13 PM PST by AlbionGirl
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To: philetus
Does Gates believe that if the commies took over the U.S. that they would let him keep his 50 million compound in Washington?

They probably would, actually, as Gates would be given a position as one of the ruling elite. 260,000,000* others wouldn't be so favored.

*I didn't actually bother to look up the population of the lower 99.9999% of wealth holders in the U.S.; just a guess.

102 posted on 01/29/2005 4:07:48 PM PST by steve86
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To: durasell
Yes, but he's still annoying.

Ok, ok, he is annoying to some, however many annoyances wouldn't exist without his "annoying" efforts in business thus, my friend, his achievements by far out way his perceived personal faults.

103 posted on 01/29/2005 4:09:02 PM PST by EGPWS
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To: AlbionGirl

Your welcome! : )


104 posted on 01/29/2005 4:10:56 PM PST by EGPWS
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To: Blackyce
It's about as ridiculous as unions teaming up with communists, which they have. We see how much liberals love Wal Mart. It's the old saying, "be careul what you wish for".

And why wouldn't Gates like psuedo captialism, he has his, the less comptetion the better.
105 posted on 01/29/2005 4:14:36 PM PST by John Lenin (Do I go MAC,,,,, nah Linux , you can have your turtle)
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To: EGPWS

...and yet, he inspires in me some long dormant high school impulse to stuff him into a locker.


106 posted on 01/29/2005 4:16:14 PM PST by durasell (Friends are so alarming, My lover's never charming...)
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To: familyop
Both Stallman and Gates have sought to devalue developers and small business owners to nearly nothing.

Yea, he has since he left high school I'm sure, after all, without a mindset to destroy he would have maintained focus on creating the GREATEST and most useful computer operating system in the world and would have accomplished this feat with his mindset.

Sadly enough we all just don't know what conveniences we could appreciate because of his demented mindset to destroy. /s

107 posted on 01/29/2005 4:21:35 PM PST by EGPWS
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To: durasell
...and yet, he inspires in me some long dormant high school impulse to stuff him into a locker.

Rid yourself of your jealous mind my friend and live life to it's fullest!

108 posted on 01/29/2005 4:24:13 PM PST by EGPWS
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To: snowsislander

When you run a profitable company with 30 Billion dollars in the bank, you don't need to be too concerned about what other countries do.


109 posted on 01/29/2005 4:24:35 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: EGPWS

Gates just likes to win. He spent a large part of his abbreviated college career playing poker and pinball.


110 posted on 01/29/2005 4:25:04 PM PST by durasell (Friends are so alarming, My lover's never charming...)
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To: EGPWS

..what do you think the odds are that either Ellison or Branson have given Gates a wedgie?


111 posted on 01/29/2005 4:26:38 PM PST by durasell (Friends are so alarming, My lover's never charming...)
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To: durasell
Gates just likes to win. He spent a large part of his abbreviated college career playing poker and pinball.

Only a "liberal", my friend, would take that to be a personal fault.

112 posted on 01/29/2005 4:38:23 PM PST by EGPWS
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To: EGPWS

I didn't say it was a fault. But it is a very large part of his personality. And it was responsible for him parlaying a couple of lucky breaks into an empire.


113 posted on 01/29/2005 4:41:54 PM PST by durasell (Friends are so alarming, My lover's never charming...)
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To: snowsislander

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1331228/posts?page=73#73

That comment of yours with quotes from Bill on the dollar is very important. Most economists are probably aware of it, and everyone in business should become aware of it very quickly. Warren Buffet and others have declared the same about the dollar. Some macro-economists say that after the next three months, give or take, our dollar will fall to somewhere around 50%. It can be good news if our business leaders will work with their domesic labor pool and unused domestic ingenuity but very bad news if they continue to head off domestic competition (which domestic competition our fathers and grandfathers correctly said is "healthy").

And a repetition of other important information for all who are thinking of migrating to Linux systems:

Open Source Licensing: What Every OEM Should Know
A Wasabi Systems white paper
Jay Michaelson
Vice President & General Counsel,
Wasabi Systems Inc.
http://www.wasabisystems.com/pdfs/GPL.WhatOEMsShouldKnow.pdf (Adobe Acrobat file)

Avoid the trap. Linux is a good personal system, but do use network systems that allow linking with your own specialty software (BSDs and others).


114 posted on 01/29/2005 5:00:59 PM PST by familyop ("Let us try" sounds better, don't you think? "Essayons" is so...Latin.)
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To: HAL9000
Yes.

16 hours a day, seven days a week, no vacation ,no sick leave, no retirement.

$8 a week before taxes.

Any complaints you get to go to the fertilizer factory.

Not to work. To be fertilizer.

115 posted on 01/29/2005 5:15:55 PM PST by mississippi red-neck
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To: EGPWS
It seems many Americans are illiterate on their American history.

The USA is founded on private property, not capitalism. Capitalism is a term created by the communist.

Could you image Gates saying that China had created a new system of private property? Of course, that would be ridiculous. However, he says "capitalism" and the illiterate are fooled into thinking it is a statement with any merit.

As far as he is a "businessman" and that in some way removing any moral obligation is just lazy reasoning. His opportunity is a direct result of the 1,000,000 men that
have given their life to protect the American system of private property since the founding of this nation. Not to mention the many more that suffered injury. This is how he says 'thank you' to these men?

The only reason he has praised China's slavery is for his own selfish gain. Considering how much he has made already, you would actually think he should be the last person praising slavery.
116 posted on 01/29/2005 6:09:22 PM PST by usa1776
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To: usa1776
The USA is founded on private property, not capitalism. Capitalism is a term created by the communist.

Your "oxymoron" statement has, in it's self, proved you to be a dissident of our productive system.

117 posted on 01/29/2005 6:20:56 PM PST by EGPWS
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To: HAL9000

Is Gates actually praising that cornerstone of socialism, Central Planning?

Guess I don't have to feel guilty about buying a MAC from leftie Steve Jobs now, even he isn't quite that far to the left.


118 posted on 01/29/2005 6:25:57 PM PST by Sam Cree (Democrats are herd animals)
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To: Sam Cree

No, but Jobs stole the idea for the graphic interface from xerox parc...oh, wait, but then Gates stole it from Jobs...


119 posted on 01/29/2005 6:27:43 PM PST by durasell (Friends are so alarming, My lover's never charming...)
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To: durasell
I didn't say it was a fault. But it is a very large part of his personality. And it was responsible for him parlaying a couple of lucky breaks into an empire.

Never give individual credit when it is due, give credit to the whole and we ALL will feel a sense of "his" accomplishments.

Right?

Gosh, lucky him!

120 posted on 01/29/2005 6:33:05 PM PST by EGPWS
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