Bill Gates, America's Would Be Director Of Everything.

Bill Gates has gone on record demanding that President Trump shut down the nation for an entire year. This is of course utter insanity but it is easy for him to say from behind the walls of his billion dollar estate with electrified fences and hundreds of security cameras monitored by armed guards possessing an arsenal that would make any prepper green with envy. He no doubt has stockpiles of food and supplies to sustain his family and staff for well over a year. I'm sure he also has Doctors and nurses on staff and a well stocked private hospital on site. Add in huge diesel generators and the fuel supplies to operate them, along with private wells and water filtration systems. Short of falling down and breaking his damn neck he has nothing to worry about.  Meanwhile 10 million Americans are now unemployed, many of whom were already living paycheck to paycheck.

Just don't be surprised as this virus runs it's course if another bio-hazard suddenly appears as an excuse to keep us locked away, afraid and dependent on government. I'm sure Gates and people like him have dreams of Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" and would burn every copy of George Orwell's "1984" and "Animal Farm" and especially Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World". They dream of a world where all information and communication is filtered through controlled media and platforms like Google, Yahoo and Facebook and only available on "smart" TVs and software and hardware systems they own and through which they can control and limit what you see and monitor what you say and whom you communicate with.

They really do see themselves as the "masters of the universe" and that they and only they are wise enough and capable enough of making the decisions on how society should operate and who should operate it. They see themselves as Huxley's Alphas and those that work for them, building and running their control platforms as their society's Betas. The rest of us, those who can't be replaced with robots (that they and only they can be allowed to build and supply), will be the Gammas and confined to the basements of society. The virtual slaves, worthy of little more than the dirty jobs, stoop labor and domestic servants catering to their petty, capricious whims and demands. If you are not among those they need as slaves as ND whose jobs have been replaced with robots and AI, you will just be cut off and allowed to die off in obscurity like you never existed.

If I could tell Gates and his kind anything it would be to tell them to go crawl into your million dollar panic rooms with your safes full of cash, bullion, guns and food and please never come out. Either that or take out one of your pistols and blow your fracking brains out. We don't need or want your vision of the future and we don't need or want you.