THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume VIII, Issue # 112, June 26, 2006
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
IF BILL GATES DOESN'T WANT THE MONEY,
I'LL TAKE IT
By Tom DeWeese
FEELING GUILTY ABOUT MAKING MONEY IN A FREE MARKET ECONOMY: THE CONFUSED MIND OF A MODERN
SOCIALIST BUSINESSMAN -- WHY SUCCESSFUL ENTREPRENEURS SHOULD DEFEND THE FREE ENTERPRISE ECONOMIC
SYSTEM & ONE'S RIGHT TO MAKE MONEY IN SUCH A SYSTEM -- THE IMPORTANCE OF UNDERSTANDING HOW A FREE
MARKET WORKS, THE TRUE NATURE OF MONEY, & THE POSITIVE GOOD DERIVED FROM MAKING MONEY HONESTLY
FULL STORY:
He might be a whiz at creating computer software, but, beyond that, Bill Gates has proven, time and again, that he hasn’t got a
clue about why and how a free market works.
He constantly teams up with anti-free market types like the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) to produce “educational”
programs that misguide unsuspecting children with political propaganda. In 2002, he gave the NWF $600,000 worth of software
to help the environmental radicals run their programs to block the drilling of American oil. Apparently, Gates doesn’t
understand that we need oil to create power to run computers.
When the U.S. Justice Department filed an anti-trust suit against him, Gates, rather than stand up in defense of his company
and openly defend his business practices that made his company so successful in a free market, he denied it all and turned his
back on the very free market principles that made his success possible. Instead, Gates admitted the government had the moral
high ground in controlling the market place.
Now comes this from the confused mind of Bill Gates: Recently, Newsweek listed Gates as the world’s richest man, ($50
billion). In response, Gates said:
“I wish I wasn’t. There is nothing good that comes out of that.”
Nothing good comes from being successful and rich? I’ll bet his legions of employees would be unhappy to hear that.
Apparently, Gates fails to understand that it is only through success and money that he is able to hire his employees. How
would his wife and family feel to learn that Bill Gates finds nothing good in their comfortable life style or the special
opportunities he can now provide to his children?
The world, of course, would be a very different place without Bill Gates’ software creations. Most of us would be much harder
pressed to go about our daily routines without this software. Of course, none of it would be possible if Bill Gates hadn’t been
successful and therefore rich, if he hadn't made money in order to pay for the development of his ideas. But, according to him,
nothing good has come out of any of it.
What Bill Gates has failed to understand is the true nature of money. He sees it as an evil to be controlled by some
self-appointed moral authority. Money, of course, is simply the means by which we measure and reward success. As Ayn Rand
so clearly put it,
“Money is a is a tool of exchange that can’t exist unless there
are goods produced and men able to produce them…. Money
is made possible only by men who produce.”
There is nothing evil about money. The evil comes from those who loot from those who create. It is simply a sign of moral
depravity to loath such a result of honest effort. The only substitute for the free exchange of money among producers is the
muzzle of a gun.
Bill Gates is certainly the modern Socialist businessman. Rather than standing strong in defense of the economic system that
allowed his success, he feels guilty about his wealth. Perhaps, he would be much happier if he were just another government
employee working in his cubical, carrying his lunch pail, shoulders hunched, frown permanently on his brow, joyless,
oppressed, nothing special.
I’m sure that, if he truly wanted to turn his entire company and all of his assets over to the government and let it run his
company, the government would be more than happy to accommodate him so he can live out his days, guiltless and plain.
The only problem for the rest of us is that, once the government consumes yet another piece of the free market system, there
will soon be a severe shortage of computer software.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Government & the Economy
Liberals, Statists, Socialists, & Other Leftists
Policy Issues Relating to Energy, Environment,
& Natural Resources
Tom DeWeese is the Publisher and Editor of The DeWeese Report and President of the American Policy Center, a
grassroots activist think tank headquartered in Warrenton, Virginia. The Center maintains an Internet website at
www.americanpolicy.org.
Copyright 2006 Tom DeWeese
Published with Permission of Tom DeWeese
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