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How long have we had billionaires? How many of them? How many of them have saved the world?
Guinea worm disease hit 3.5M people in 1986. Here's how that goes: you drink contaminated water. Larvae eat through your intestine. Mature worms eat through your skin; you reintroduce them to water to cool the searing pain. CDC & Gates collaborated. 51 cases worldwide in 2019.
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Maybe not "saving the world," but I think it's pretty cool that we've nearly fully eradicated a worm that literally eats its way through living human beings with the massive support of a billionaire — for whom this was just one of many, many ongoing public health projects
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I'm very happy that Bill Gates is putting his money to good use. I'm also not entirely sure what the point of the original article was. At the same time, how many billionaires have had Gates-level impacts? Depending on philanthropy does not seem to be a good systemic solution.
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