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Microsoft founder Bill Gates has called on Europe to stop demonstrating generosity towards asylum seekers to avoid an overwhelming migrant influx. He also advises European states to make Africans' way to the continent much more difficult.
During an interview Germany's Welt am Sonntag, Gates, one of the richest people on the planet, warned of the grave consequences of exceeding generosity towards refugees coming to Europe, whose numbers would only rise unless something is done.
"On the one hand you want to demonstrate generosity and take in refugees, but the more generous you are, the more word gets around about this – which in turn motivates more people to leave Africa," Gates said.
While Germany has been one of the pioneers of the open door policy, it cannot "take in the huge, massive number of people who are wanting to make their way to Europe." Thus Gates advised European nations to take action in order to make it "more difficult for Africans to reach the continent via the current transit routes."
Source: https://www.rt.com/news/395356-migrants-overwhelm-europe-gates/
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 13 2017, @12:50AM (6 children)
Fecking Brits! You know, some say the Friederich Nietzsche advocated genocide, and that is why the Nazi's tried to appropriate him. But for Nietzsche the target was the English. Something about a nation of shopkeepers not smart enough to stay in the market. Bloody Poms! You know, you pull that Empire stuff just once, and people will hate you for what seems like a really long time. And it might actually be.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday July 13 2017, @03:00AM (5 children)
Well, I did notice when thumbing through the English translation, "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" that Nietzsche had said some clueless things about markets. So not feeling the need to hate on English just because they do economics relatively well.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 13 2017, @04:26AM (4 children)
As far as you got, eh? Thumbs? Well, the obvious thumbal is that khallow accuses others of appeals to authority, when his appeal it to his thumbs, in a translation, picking out words like "market" and "profit" when the work was about the "making" of a "Prophet". My God, has the American educational system fallen this far that even a khallow does not know things that any half-way decently educated European does? Is this why Trump got elected? Do you even know who Zoroaster was, and what religion still reveres him, to this day?
And besides, the Brexdeath stuff in not in "Also Sprach", but you would have to be able to read something other than English to know that.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 13 2017, @01:21PM (1 child)
Yep.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 13 2017, @03:21PM
Oh come on, who doesn't want a really rich person for president? Rich people are smarter, otherwise they wouldn't be rich! Amirite??
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday July 13 2017, @09:12PM (1 child)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 14 2017, @05:01AM
Calm down, Khallow! No one dissed the "Market". Well, Nietzsche might have, but I don't think that Zarathustra means economic theory. Unless it was that nasty tendency to only value that which holds a price, in a market? Hmm, we may have come to the nub of the khallow here: he believes in nothing. "Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." It is very simple, khallow.