Bill Gates isn’t like those other tech billionaires


A family photo shows Bill Gates doing math on the chalkboard at Lakeside School in Seattle in 1973. Gates says that if his teenage self were diagnosed now, he would probably be told he was on the spectrum. — Gates Family via The New York Times

INDIAN WELLS, California: The older he gets, the more Bill Gates is surprised by what the world dishes up.

Take billionaires. There are many now from the tech industry, quite a few with politics that skew forcefully right.

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