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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: 1, Insightful) by khallow on Thursday July 13 2017, @02:37AM (6 children)
I'll just note here that enabling bad people to cause problems is one of the more common and glaring failure modes of government whether it be protecting rent seekers or looking the other way while a terrorist cell does 9/11. And I can't help but notice that quite a few of the people complaining about the megacorporations running governments propose to have the governments allegedly run by megacorporations, run the megacorporations. I'm sure that will end well.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 13 2017, @03:02AM
It is a pickle, no doubt about it.
It will end because it is unsustainable, just as running a car on fumes is unsustainable. The faster you go, the more fuel you consume for the most part.
The solution to the problem will become more apparent during the walk to the gas station. It's for your own good. You'll remember to keep a spare gas can for the next time down that road.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Thursday July 13 2017, @04:11AM (4 children)
Perhaps it's possible to make the governments own shortcomings to work against themselves?
Kind of like where big cities causes housing prices to soar until employees that make the city work moves away and the city starts to having trouble performing as well as other cities.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by khallow on Thursday July 13 2017, @04:45AM (3 children)
We call those sorts of things, "businesses". And shortcomings work when the business doesn't have a captive revenue stream, that is, tax money, to do things no matter how harmful those actions are.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Thursday July 13 2017, @05:09AM
If "tax units" abandon ship or government spends the stolen goods on self defeating projects. It might work anyway?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 13 2017, @03:09PM (1 child)
Why are you so ignorant? Are you fresh out of high school??
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 13 2017, @07:46PM
Go easy on him. The person who looks after him has a couple of hours off now and then and lets him go on the Internets all by himself.