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Should Gates really be described as a 'thinker'? I mean, the guy has achieved amazing things and clearly is intelligent, but should he go in that category?
Most of the brightest minds of the last 50 years or so have been used for commercial gain, given that’s where offers the most individual benefit for the thinker.
Gates, Buffet, Zuckerberg etc... may well have been revolutionary thinkers if they’d dedicated their time and energy to that realm. Instead we ‘just’ have to make do with them earning money hand over fist and revolutionising the world.
Nb: we can argue each individual contribution to the change of the world but that’s not specifically the point.