比尔·盖茨：私营部门是无能的 [美国媒体]

Bill Gates: The Private Sector Is Inept

比尔·盖茨：私营部门是无能的



The world's richest man doubts that the private sector is up to the mostimportant job.

世界首富质疑私营部门从事的是最重要的工作。

BillGates, still the world's richest man after all these years, does not have a lotof faith in his fellow billionaires or even capitalism when it comes to doingthe right thing. It turns out he thinks the private sector is too selfish andinept to tackle the dire climate change situation, and relying on it would becourting disaster. Better to take a quasi socialist approach and remove theprofit motive altogether from this important work.

经过这么多年之后, 世界首富仍然还是比尔•盖茨，但谈到做正确的事情的问题上，他对除他以外的亿万富翁们，甚至是资本主义都并没有抱有太多的信心。结果是他认为私营部门太自私,无能应对极端气候变化所引起的严峻情况,反而会去依靠它，最终招致灾难。更好的方式是采取准社会主义的方法,将利润动机完全从这个重要的工作中移除出去。

In a wide-ranging interview with The Atlantic recently,Gates tacked pretty hard to the left. "There's no fortune to bemade," he said, when it comes to developing clean energy sources andmitigating climate change. Besides, he pointed out, "the private sector isin general inept. How many companies do venture capitalists invest in that gopoorly? By far most of them.”

最近在大西洋报的广角采访中,盖茨强烈抨击了左党。“根本没有赚钱的机会,”当谈到发展清洁能源,减缓气候变化所带来的影响时，他这样说道。此外,他还指出,“一般说来，私营部门是无能的”。多少公司的风险投资家的风险评估结果是无利可图?到目前为止是大多数吧。”

The tech magnate, who has pledged $2 billion of his own money for R&D(which seems like a lot until you consider that he is worth $79.2 billion,according to Forbes), said he was pleasantly surprised when he dug into thehistory of government research into big scientific questions.

这一科技巨头,承诺其本人提供20亿美元的资金用于研发(这似乎是一大笔钱,但你要想想他价值792亿美元,这是《福布斯》曾报道过的),并说在挖掘政府对重大科学问题进行研究的历史时, 他很是惊喜。

“Since World War II, U.S.-government R&D has defined the state of the artin almost every area,” Gates told the Atlantic.“When I first got into this I thought, ‘How well does the Department of Energyspend its R&D budget?’ And I was worried: ‘Gosh, if I’m going to be sayingit should double its budget, if it turns out it’s not very well spent, how am Igoing to feel about that? But as I’ve really dug into it, the DARPA money isvery well spent, and the basic-science money is very well spent. The governmenthas these ‘Centers of Excellence.’ They should have twice as many of those things,and those things should get about four times as much money as they do.”

“自二战以来,美国政府的研发部门几乎在每一个领域都对艺术的状态下了定义,”盖茨对大西洋报这样说道。“当我第一次踏入这个领域的时候，我想,‘能源部的研发预算开支得怎么样呢?’然后我就很担心:‘天哪,要是我说它可能会将预算翻倍,要是开支状况不是很好呢,对这些我将会有些什么样的感觉呢?但是当我真的挖进去了的时候,美国国防部高级研究计划局的钱花得很好,基础科学的钱也花得很好。政府有这些“卓越中心”。这样的部门应该再多两倍,而这些部门应该得到他们原有资金的四倍资金。”

Gates is doing a solo world tour to convince the world's richest nations tocommit to innovating their way out of catastrophic climate change, a tallorder. Germany and China arealready pointing the way to green energy with some of their socialist policies.Germany has generated asmuch as 78 percent of its electricity through renewable sources, and regularlygenerates about 30 percent, twice what the U.S. does. China’s $80 billion green energy investmentdwarfs that of both the U.S.and Europe.

盖茨正在进行一个世界巡回独演，以此来说服世界上最富有的国家致力于运用创新方式来应对灾难性的气候变化——这一艰巨的任务。德国和中国已经将采取的绿色能源方式与他们的一些社会主义政策联系起来。德国通过利用可再生能源，已经产生了高达78%的电力,并会定期生成约30%的电力,是美国发电量的两倍。中国价值800亿美元的绿色能源投资使美国和欧洲都相形见绌。

“I would love to see a tripling, to $18 billion a year from the U.S.government to fund basic research alone,” Gates said. “Now, as a percentage ofthe government budget, that’s not gigantic… This is not an unachievable amountof money.”

“我希望能看到一个三倍的,也就是说美国政府每年拨出180亿美元去资助基础设施研发,”盖茨说道。“目前,作为政府预算的比例而言,这算不上是巨大的…这不是一个无法达到的数额。”

Still, given the current make-up of the U.S. Congress, and its funding from theclimate-change denying Koch brothers, Gates will likely face his hardest fightright here at home.

不过,鉴于目前美国国会的构成,及其资助来源——否认气候变化的科赫兄弟,盖茨可能会在这里即他自己家里面临最为困难的战斗。

Rachel Flanagan •2 hours ago
Bill Gates was tolerable whenhe was the quiet billionaire geek.

当比尔盖茨作为一名安静的、拥有亿万财富的怪人的时候，他还是能够让人忍受的。

noyb •3 hours ago
Bill is an expert............. CONTROL-ALTERNATE-DELETE ............in "ineptness"!

比尔是一名专家…………以防被大西洋报删掉…………在“无能”方面而言！

Tinwhiskers> noyb •2 hoursago
It's a feature, not a bug.

那是特点，不是故障。

Fafnir1968 •4 hours ago
Tell you what Bill, when youkeep that 2 billion for yourself and donate the remaining 77 billion, then I'llbelieve your sincerity. After all even doing that will still leave you therichest man in the cemetery when you finally stop gasping for breath.

告诉你吧，比尔,当你自己留下那20亿，将剩下的770亿全捐了的时候,我就会相信你的真诚。毕竟即使这样，在你最终咽气的时候，你仍然还是墓地首富。

Dark Watcher •6 hours ago
Bill needs to put his moneywhere his mouth is and start funding basic research without a profit motive.

比尔需要把他的钱花在他的嘴一直在谈论的地方去,并开始在没有利润动机的情况下资助基础设施研究。

Cerberus79 •10 hours ago
The private sector may beinept but it sure can be generous. Mr. and Mrs. Gates have given $25 million tothe Clinton Foundation so far.

私营部门可能是无能的,但它肯定可以是慷慨的。到目前为止, 盖茨先生和其夫人就给了克林顿基金会2500万美元。

s k> Cerberus79 •10 hoursago
I bet the people of Haiti are real happy with those FEMA trailersthat Clintonset up as future storm shelters

我敢打赌,海地人民非常乐意见到联邦应急管理局的拖车——即克林顿为应对未来风暴所设立的避难所。

s k •10 hours ago
Not only is the private sectorinept at sovling this problem , the private sector created this problem.
Bill , put your money whereyour mouth is , what are you saving your billions for the "End Times". What a disgusting Father Gates is , he cares more about keeping his billionsthan the future of his own childen

私营部门在解决这一问题不仅仅是无能的,还是私营部门制造出的这一问题。
比尔,把你的钱花在你的嘴一直在谈论的地方去,在你的“最终时光”里，你要将省下那数十亿美元做什么。盖茨这是个恶心的父亲,相比起自己孩子的未来，他更关心保存那数十亿美元。

Alvin Brinson •10 hours ago
Voice of reason? Big businessisn't the answer for everything?
Lollll what next?
Bill Gates for Prez?

原因呢？大型企业不是所有事情的答案？
哈哈，下一个是什么呢？
比尔盖茨竞选总统？

dannyjoelamaster •10 hours ago
That's the nice way therichest man in the world tells big business how fucked up they are. Way to goBill.

由世界首富来告诉大企业们他们有多糟糕，真是太棒了。就该这么做，比尔。

Austin Konrad •10 hours ago
So the guy who spends billionstrying to privatize public schools is calling the private sector inept huh?Here's a thought put your money where your mouth is and try to undue all thedamage you have done to the public school system!!!!

所以花费数十亿试图将公立学校私有化的人称私营部门无能？啊?现在有个想法，还是把钱花在你的嘴一直在谈论的地方去吧,试图挽回你对公立学校系统所造成的所有损失! ! ! !

s k> Austin Konrad •10hours ago
He likes private prisons also

他也喜欢私人监狱

Wally> s k •10 hours ago
And Monsanto......

还有孟山都……

s k> Wally •10 hours ago
That is his inept solution toworld hunger

那就是他在应对世界饥饿时的无能解决方式

rs•11 hours ago
Now he see's the light, toolittle too late Bill.

现在他倒是看见光亮了，太少太晚了，比尔。

Newton Finn •13 hours ago
If Bill Gates chipped in the 18billion he thinks Uncle Sam should contribute to save the planet, he would thenbe worth only 61 billion. Wouldn't that be a grand gesture on the gentleman'spart to make sure that his grandchildren will be able to survive?
You all know the old joke aboutthe rich guy who died. Someone asked, "How much did he leave?" Thensomeone answered, "He left it all."

如果比尔盖茨捐了180亿，那他就会认为山姆大叔应该要致力于拯救地球，到那时他的身家就只有610亿了。那不是一位绅士为确保他的子孙后代有能力生存下去所作出的宏伟姿态么？
你们都知道关于那位已经逝世了的富人的老笑话吧。某人问道，“他留下了多少钱？”然后某人回答道，“他留下了全部。”

s k> Newton Finn •10 hours ago

Gates has a disease , it's calledgreed

盖茨得了一种病，名字叫做贪婪