You’ve either totally missed the point, or intentionally redirected the argument as a good lawyer would.
This wasn’t about societal or governmental costs. I was simply talking about potential expenses/revenues for gates in that scenario
My point, as easily inferred, was that if gates wanted to reduce population through “free” birth control, that would be a huge cost to him as “someone” would have to pay for the BC.
On the other hand, he stands to make billions selling his vaccines. I have no earthly idea how you got to the point that he’d be covering the long term medical health costs. That doesn’t seem to be any of his concern and as such that’d fall on us peasants that pay taxes.
Your premise was that he was working with the government to reduce their costs. It said that in the links you sent.
So your premise is now that 64 year old Bill Gates (with a net worth of over $100 bn) wants to now SPEND 100's of millions of dollars to attempt to develop a vaccine that will cripple the entire population so he can make more money but would also kill lots of consumers who won't be able to buy his already developed and insanely profitable and legal products.
Can I sell you some real estate? How about a cure for Covid? (I have it trust me)
That takes a bit of mental gymnastics to see how you got there, however I can openly admit that I see where the misunderstanding comes from.
I was not discussing this from the premise of reducing governmental costs however... Sometime back, someone (cant remember who and don't feel like going back to look) asked some form of "what's in it for gates" or "why would he want to do that", to which I replied "world depopulation" and/or :kstategrad (money)
Based on the former premise, I agree. It'd be more expensive for society. Based on the latter, I remain correct.
By the way, what are his "already developed and insanely profitable products & legal products"?