so they re not paying bank fees and a lot in health, new vaccines. so we re by far the biggest funder on malaria, coming up with new bed nets, new drugs. ..a vaccine, a way of killing mosquitoes. yeah, but if you think about this in terms of ethics, are you driven in your philanthropy mostly by excitement, by the potential outcome, or does it come from some deep psychological motive, you know, guilt, a feeling that you should live a life that s purposeful, a feeling that, you know, you genuinelyjust don t know what to do with this cash? i not only want to put the money in, but i want to put my time in and assemble people so we can learn, you know, what health systems work, which ones don t. i, you know, find the work very fulfilling. i get to learn new things. get to go to interesting places. yeah. there s no sacrifice involved. it s. well, it s quite a lot of financial sacrifice! sure, but i don t have any use for that money. i mean, i m not denying myself, you know, the wor
So i do think there s some projects that philanthropy is good at doing better than governments. well, let me channel some of your critics. they would say in that very impressive answer from bill gates, he s given a huge amount of money to polio. he s given a huge amount of money to malaria. but why should bill gates decide where that money goes? who made you god? i m not god. i mean, as a percentage of the world economy, you know, i m kind of rounding there, but, yes, i decided that the death of children, when i read that diarrhoea was killing a half million children and that the vaccine to stop those deaths was being given to the rich kids, but not to the poor kids, i said, wow, now i know the area of inequity most of my money will go on. i m pleased to see you say you re not god, but what do you make of this criticism that some philanthropists, that bill gates, fancies themselves as a white saviour? what does that mean?