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This Book Left Me in Tears
All lives have equal value. But some deaths seem particularly cruel. When Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 2013, he was a 36-year-old on the verge of making big contributions to the world with his mind and hands. He was a gifted doctor—a chief resident in neurosurgery at Stanford just months away from completing the most grueling training of any clinical field. He was also a brilliant scientist. His postdoctoral research on gene therapy won him his field’s highest research award.
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This guy is so full of shit. Bill Gates has a net worth of ~90 billion dollars. That's ninety thousand million dollars, or 9x10^10 if you prefer scientific notation. Or higher than the GDP or about 140-150 countries in the world. I'm pretty sure he can do more than just sobbing at the tragedy of this guy's life.
Having said that, this is actually one of the less mind-blowingly evil multibillionaries. Good times we live in.
Edit: I had a US vs rest of the world brain fart. Fixed the billion amount.
The greatest trick Bill Gates ever pulled was convincing the world he is less mind-blowingly evil.
Ah, the thing is, I'm comparing him to people like the Koch Brothers, or Zuckerberg, or pretty much anyone else on this list. I guess their level of evil is as hard to grasp for me as their level of wealth. Makes it hard to compare them.