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Trading Places with Bill Gates

I’m calling bullshit on this one:

Bill Gates wishes he weren’t so rich

“I wish I wasn’t. There is nothing good that comes out of that,” said Gates. His fortune is currently estimated at $50 billion.
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Tell you what, Bill — I’ll swap places with you. For just one year. Believe me, you’ll be more than happy to trade back when it’s all over.

How much would you have to lose in order to become “merely” the second richest man in the world? I think Larry Ellison is just a few billion dollars behind you — tell you what, to help you out, just make that check out to R-O-B-B-I-E C-O-O-P-E-R (or “Cash” would work just fine also). And you can get rid of that horrible Richest Man in the World stigma.

Posted by Robbie Cooper on Thursday, May 4th, 2006 | Trackback |

5 Responses to “Trading Places with Bill Gates”

Robbie: You’ve already have been outed as being on the Rovian payroll by a commenter. How much money do you really need?

Left by 2 on May 4th, 2006 at 7:25 pm

Rove’s last check bounced. And who the hell can I even complain to about that one?

Left by Robbie on May 4th, 2006 at 9:44 pm

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Left by austinsnews.net | Calibrating for hype on May 5th, 2006 at 6:41 am

Riches. You can’t take them with you. Can’t take anything with you. Not even your loved ones. I really do admire Bill Gates a lot. He is a self made man and he did it without an inheritance, a formal education or a king as a father. Furthermore, he appears to be a good man, a man who is ethical and a man who shares his wealth. When he leaves this earth, though, he will have no more than the poorest person who ever lived.

If you believe in God and Jesus Christ, however, there is still one thing you will have and that is your salvation and the promise of eternal life. I really believe that choice, to believe or not believe, is given to each of us no matter our age, or our ethnicity or the dasdardly deeds we may have committed, and that choice is given to us even up to the moment of our last breath. If you’ve ever stood by a loved one as that person takes his/her last breath, that promise is worth more than all of the gold and riches in the world.

Left by dianne on May 5th, 2006 at 10:28 am

I dont know why he would say something like that. His house is about $100 million. His house is quite unique. The walls in the bedrooms change color depending on the person’s mood.

Left by chris on May 8th, 2006 at 10:35 am

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