Meanwhile, in a parallel reality where the world’s not getting Punk’d by a president…

Bill Gates’ 2008 Davos speech that pushed ‘creative capitalism’ was a good philosophy delivered at a bad time.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, consistently ranked as the world’s wealthiest man, spoke about ‘creative capitalism’ in a 2008 speech at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.World Economic Forum/www.swiss-image.ch photograph by Remy Steinegger

Opinion

BY LISA VAN DUSEN

July 5, 2017

For all the clichés about the World Economic Forum annual meeting at Davos being a Gulfstream G550 traffic jam, important news can get made in the Swiss Alps in January. There was the moment, in 2009, when then-Turkish prime minister-now-President-for-Life Recep Tayyip Erdogan stormed off the stag...

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