He's made himself very rich by his own technical and business acumen in a country that worships doing just that.
He may or may not have opinions with which some disagree _ I do not know and won't unless I hear or read what are genuinely his own words and I can decide to agree or disagree in whole or in part.
Has he actually [i]done anything genuinely wrong[/i] - anything illegal for which he should of course be brought to account.?
Or are we just seeing raw jealousy for his being very successful by the American definition of "success" (= wealth)?
@ArishMell These words were his, I heard them myself in a clip from a TV interview.
One must judge him on the basis of what he has done. When he said that vaccines were the best health investment, at a return of 20:1, and that these present years are the "decade of the vaccine", and when one considers that he has zero medical qualifications and yet is apparently sen as the world's "vaccine tsar", one has to wonder whether his zeal for vaccinating the world is more focused on filling his own already-overflowing coffers than on bringing health and longevity to the populations of Africa and the rest of the world.
@WalterF Oh, I don't doubt his greed and I don't like some of Microsoft's business methods and its near-universal monopoly; but I don't take his opinions as seriously as some would wish.
He's entitled to express them, but I don't necessarily agree with them, especially if as you point out, they are based on ignorance or dubious motives. He hasn't actually done anything wrong though; and I don't suppose for one minute he's the only one making a lot of money from shares in pharmaceutical companies. Those are commercial businesses after all, though I would object if their prices or business models are unfair.
