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He's left of center. He is no “pure capitalist”. He's here condemning capitalism has having some basic flaws.
He's part of the problem, not the solution.
A Capitalist believes in fair taxes, especially if the money is spent to defend his property and keep the social order. Gates’ argument is that we need to provide more services to the laboring classes or they 1.) won’t be healthy enough to work or 2.)trained enough to work well.
As far as his belief that the climate is changing and the mean temperature of the Earth is rising - well, that doesn’t make him a Marxist, either. Capitalists all over the world believe that - it isn’t a “Marxist” idea.The facts are that the Earth’s mean temperature *is* rising, and that we are getting more extreme weather conditions of all types, as well as environmental changes.
A person can believe these true facts without being a Leftist. A person can also say that we should do something to either adapt to it, or change it, without claiming that we know the cause of it.
Do you believe that the Earth’s mean temperature is, or is not, rising?