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📢 文末扫码进裙,免费领取双语精读版 What Bill Gates reveals about other billionaires An unusual biography of the technologist-turned-philanthropist. The Economist Billionaire 13 August, 2024 | 672 words | ★★ ★ ☆ ☆ “Americans appear to be growing increasingly uneasy about billionaires,” observes Anupreeta Das, a journalist and former finance editor at the New York Times. Do they embody the American dream or endanger it? And who gets to decide what billionaires owe to society? Ms Das has chosen an original way to address these questions: by writing a biography of Bill Gates, the first superstar tech billionaire. With his long career and its many ups and downs, Mr Gates is “the perfect prism through which to refract these thorny moral questions” in pursuit of a “collective rethink” about American values. Ms Das goes from the founding of Microsoft in 1975 to its stockmarket flotation 11 years later (which made Mr Gates America’s youngest b
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