Jesus H. Christ on a pogo-stick:*

Free enterprise has been good to Bill Gates. But today, the Microsoft Corp. chairman will call for a revision of capitalism.

In a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the software tycoon plans to call for a “creative capitalism” that uses market forces to address poor-country needs that he feels are being ignored.

Clearly, there is a mental illness that grips you when you have that many significant digits to the left of the decimal point in your bank account. “Oh, all the natural laws that allowed to me amass a fortune undreamed of by even Scrooge McDuck in the funny papers can be repealed on the say-so of…me.”

Or maybe it’s his esposa, browbeating him about the umpteenth 6 ft.-wide plasma flat screen. Who knows? Fucking lunatics, all running the world, sitting around Davos, spending gajillions to talk about revising capitalism with their lunatic gajillionaire friends. Talk about pulling the ladder up behind you.

Throw me a million, bub…I’ll give you a revision. Sure I will. Just as soon as I knock out this change to the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

NB: Alan Sullivan demolishes this dipshit way of thinking:

The Third World does not need technocratic paternalists. It needs home-grown leaders who value the common good above personal pelf, and who build polities where private property is secure. Then and only then, people will lift themselves from poverty; they need no help from Bill Gates.