THE BILL GATES PROBLEM - RECKONING WITH THE MYTH OF THE GOOD BILLIONAIRE
A powerful investigation of Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation, showing how he uses philanthropy to exercise enormous political power without accountability
Through his vaunted philanthropy, Bill Gates transformed himself from a tech villain into one of the most admired people on the planet. Even as divorce proceedings and allegations of misconduct have recently tarnished his public image, the beneficence of the Gates Foundation, celebrated for spending billions to save lives around the globe, is taken as a given. But as Tim Schwab shows in this fearless investigation, Gates is still exactly who he was at a bully and monopolist, convinced of his own righteousness and intent on imposing his ideas, his solutions, and his leadership on everyone else. At the core, he is not a selfless philanthropist but a power broker, a clever engineer who has innovated a way to turn extreme wealth into immense political influence-and who has made us believe we should applaud his acquisition of power, not challenge it.
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SCHWAB TIM
Tim Schwab es un periodista de investigación estadounidense radicado en Washington D.C. que ha trabajado como colaborador en medios como The Nation, Columbia Journalism Review y British Medical Journal. Sus reportajes sobre la Fundación Gates han recibido reconocimiento internacional y le valieron premios como el Izzy Award del Park Center for Independent Media y el Deadline Club Award de la Society of Professional Journalists, además de una nominación al premio Pulitzer. En 2024 publicó su primer libro titulado El problema de Bill Gates, editado en más de once idiomas. Su labor se centra en el análisis crítico de instituciones filantrópicas y corporativas
