Re:Oxford pledged to donate rights to their Covid Vaccine, t...
by monopoledance on Sunday January 24, 2021 @02:51PM
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> Gates suggesting it gets taken seriously not because he has a lot of money, but because he's spent the last couple of decades heavily involved in global health
Which is only possible, because he has a lot of money. That's fallacious reasoning.
> “[Bill] Gates has staked out this outsized role in the vaccine world,” Love said. “He has an ideological belief that the intellectual property system is a wonderful mechanism that is necessary for innovation and prosperity.”
Ideological belief.
Many people have a different take on this, but they tend to not get the power in a capitalistic system, so you won't get the possible alternative story told. Gate's success is a self-fulfilling prophecy and hardly evidence to justify the means.
My point is he is shaping the world to his liking, his ideology. No single human should have that power.
I doubt that Oxford would have changed their position if Larry Ellison had called to suggest it.
Gates suggesting it gets taken seriously not because he has a lot of money, but because he's spent the last couple of decades heavily involved in global health, much of that concentrating on less developed countries and on vaccination (which fits right in with what Oxford wants for their vaccine), and has developed a good reputation for knowing the field.