Comment by UncleMeat

I have no idea why Gates would be uniquely prescient here (maybe hanging out with famous pedophiles and secretly drugging your wife gives you special insight).

If we have learned anything from the last 200 years of technological advancement and capitalism it is that capital must be forced to share with labor. Bosses didn't say "oh everybody is more productive lets have some weekends off." No. They fought tooth and nail (including with guns) to stop that from happening.

Tuberculosis is the world's deadliest disease. It is also curable. The thing that causes TB today is unequal distribution of wealth and resources. If a TB drug cannot be distributed to the world to save millions of lives a year, why would we expect this new stuff to be?