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- Sumyunguy, on 10/15/2007, -34/+445How does it feel to be a commoner Bill?!?!
- brob23, on 10/11/2007, -8/+263definition of irony:
Millions of Mexicans cross the border into the US to find jobs and make money. Meanwhile the world's richest man is now a Mexican. - XISUPERMANIX, on 10/11/2007, -5/+197He gives away billions in charity and eventually one day he will give it all to charity when he retires.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+169bill gates doesnt want to be the richest man in the world anyway. pretty soon (next year?) he's actually going to be working full-time in quite the opposite direction, giving away money via the gates foundation...
- evensong, on 10/11/2007, -7/+159Haha, what makes you think he would do that? He got this far by exploiting every Mexican he can. Why would he stop now that he is on top?
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -28/+163Good for Mr. Slim, hope he invests in more jobs for Mexicans.
- ABadInAlbany, on 10/11/2007, -17/+150Drugs are more profitable than software? Whodathunkit?
- jubilee123, on 10/11/2007, -5/+125he's not as sexy as bill, though
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -3/+85In other news, I am still stinking poor......
- Dabellah, on 10/11/2007, -2/+77Yea, I read that Bill Gates has donated over half of his earnings to charity organizations and starting his own as well. Gates will go down in history as a philanthropist before anything else. The above statement of donating it all is also true - he plans to donate all of his cash someday, leaving only a 'necessary' amount for his kids. He doesn't care about being the richest man in the world and that much should be obvious.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+74http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundation
- EarlOfLade, on 10/11/2007, -1/+70I'd just like to have the difference...
- heynow21, on 10/11/2007, -5/+73This guy being the richest is obscene. His company a monopoly on telephones in a corrupt poor country. The guy isn't even MEXICAN. He should worry about a Chavez type character coming to power and putting him in his place.
- wildfire, on 10/11/2007, -2/+67Did he drop his wallet?
- mortigon, on 10/11/2007, -2/+62That's a lot of Pesos
- steppingrazor, on 10/11/2007, -3/+63Slim parked his Massive yacht in Downtown Wilmington a couple months ago. Got a snap of it while it headed down to the Caribbean.
http://flickr.com/photos/john-hanusek/706280642/ - shazaamomight, on 10/11/2007, -3/+61None of his money should go to Africa and none of yours or mine either. African aid is exactly what is causing such appalling poverty in Africa. it stifles economics and promotes violent greedy dictatorships. If sending money to Africa worked so well then why does the continent continue to be the poorest in the world despite hundreds of billions in aid and a wealth of natural resources?
- TenebrousX, on 10/11/2007, -0/+58or even the sum of both fortunes
wait, I think I did something wrong - Smokeymcpot, on 10/11/2007, -8/+65Maybe Chinese Women will want his sperm now instead...
- postitnote, on 10/11/2007, -5/+59From another article it links to:
http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2056114,00.html
More recently, Mr Slim has developed a charitable foundation aimed at improving healthcare and education in his country, pledging funds of $10bn over four years. He has made it clear, however, that he does not intend to loosen his grip on his empire, telling Reuters: "Wealth is like an orchard. You have to share the fruit, not the trees."
So he isn't just hoarding his fortune. - mlayog, on 10/11/2007, -0/+51Or even just the interest on the difference :)
- bodger, on 10/11/2007, -2/+53This explains why he never paid out for that email beta test I took part in a few months ago. I was assured that he would be paying me $245 for every person I forwarded it to :-( .
- Escamotage, on 10/11/2007, -9/+58Damn, that Zune and Vista...
- KielKilla, on 10/11/2007, -1/+49When he dies who will protect me from steve jobs?
- Jholder112233, on 10/11/2007, -1/+44Or even just the interest of the interest of the difference.
- kjk437, on 10/11/2007, -2/+43Exactly, his wealth was estimated at over 100 billion at one point, but he gives so much away.
- nixonrichard, on 10/11/2007, -10/+46I have a feeling none of his money will be making its way to Africa.
- electrichead, on 10/11/2007, -0/+36Actually, the correct analogy would be to chuck fish in the general direction of the people, where a few men with big nets can grab all of them for themselves.
- janeuner, on 10/11/2007, -4/+39He's the mexican equivalent of an old american hero: J.P. Morgan.
err....wait a minute... - praisethelard, on 06/06/2008, -2/+31Yeah, but his name is cooler. Carlos Slim. That name just exudes "cool".
- AdonalFoyle, on 10/11/2007, -8/+36Seriously, if monopolies were legal in the U.S. like the one Carlos Slim has in Mexico, Bill Gates and Microsoft would have dominated the PC market and all its counterparts YEARS ago.
- nossr50, on 10/11/2007, -7/+35Bill gates gave away half of his fortune to charity, I'll be impressed when this guy hits the 100 billion mark
- KnightMareInc, on 10/11/2007, -13/+40just another job stolen by the mexicans
- Rhino2, on 10/11/2007, -6/+33Because they are using it wrong?
Buy a man a fish and he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish and he eats for a life time.
We're doing the former. We are "Giving" out billions of fish to billions of people; but doing almost nothing to teach them how to fish for themselves. Hence the problem. - PatoLucas, on 10/11/2007, -1/+27He did it by destroying competitively. He got most of his fortune with telmex, which for a very long time was the only telephone company in México, the government helped him by imposing locks to telecom inversion.
Right now the other telecom companies are having a very hard time trying to offer good services in México because they still have to negotiate with telmex a lot of stuff like connecting to temex network.
One of México's biggest problems has been the lack of competitivity, which Mr. Slim hates, so don't have too many hopes in that he'll help the country's economy, instead, he'll keep trying to get every single dime from his customers. - tylerkempt, on 10/11/2007, -1/+25Don't worry. If you can afford to use your electricity-powered modern computer with an internet connection, you're probably not doing so bad.
(However, if you're just a hobo in a public library, my apologies.) - vemerge, on 10/11/2007, -2/+23When he dies, not when he retires.
- saintdesy, on 10/11/2007, -2/+23It's people like Slim that are the reason the Mexican people are so poor. The elites of Mexico have been ***** on their countrymen for generations.
- gibsonic, on 10/11/2007, -5/+25im not a M$ fanboi but Bill Gates for all his dodgy behavior over the years really is a modern day Robin Hood...takes from the rich and gives to the poor. Relatively speaking even the poorest places in the US are rich compared to the places bill is giving his money.
- airwalkery2k, on 10/11/2007, -0/+20Slim chance?
- ozid, on 10/11/2007, -2/+21I'm in ur countries, tellin u h0w to do stuff
- kuzotz, on 10/11/2007, -3/+22Mexican's rich elite spend more time making sure to keep their money, and let American companies rape the country while they don't even try to produce goods or services. There are very very very few mexican corporations... It isn't like America or the EU or Canada where people are willing to compete especially when they are rich.
- sinembarg0, on 10/11/2007, -0/+18yes, and Carlos Slim is a cheap ass and doesn't believe in giving to charity.
- Wacer, on 10/11/2007, -4/+22To help in fixing the border issue I think the US needs to get harsh on the Mexican government for being a bunch corrupt ***** who don't give a crap about a majority of its people and actively help the poor/undesirables get into the US. Instead of helping the poor they export them as a product.
- WiZZLa, on 10/11/2007, -1/+17This has happened before; once in 2000 when Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's stock options made him worth more than Bill Gates for a few days.
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-239838.html or http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2000/04/35871 ...that was until Oracle's stock price fell and his worth was halved. http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1157273765 - consonance, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15Is that a yacht or a cruise ship?
- adam84a, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15not bad, the helicopter is a nice touch.
- subxero37, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15You can't exactly be very rich if you're dead.
- MasteRR, on 10/11/2007, -1/+16Richest man alive. No one ever claimed he was the richest man in history.
- Mearn, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15No, we're giving out billions of fish to their leaders.
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