You forgot 5 and 6

5. Those that think they know the big picture but ignore things like building 7 that on 9-11 fell the same speed as a rock dropped in air, meaning the buildings only support was air, while razzing at the people who notice this and other inexplicable events that do not conform to reality.

Bill Gates and others like him actually know far less about software than most presume. What they know an awful lot about is the software business. They have the big picture.

It’s dangerous for knowledge of the big picture to be concentrated in the hands of a very few.

I find it useful to divide humanity into four classes:

1. Those who know the big picture and therefore rule.

2. Those who would like to know the big picture but struggle to acquire all the pieces of the puzzle.

3. Those who think they know the big picture but are mistaken. Sub-types: conspiracy theorists, ideologues/true believers.

4. Those who don’t care about the big picture. The ancient Greeks had a word for them.

Recently he has been criticizing so called “green energy” of late,and on that subject he seems quite sound.

Everyone is looking out for himself. It’s human nature. I can accept that, but I wish they’d at least be honest about it. Public altruism is virtue signaling. It’s a sham.

A couple of decades back during that antitrust business, Objectivists were trying to make a hero out of Bill Gates. They thought of him as some sort of innovative, courageous and hard put-upon industrialist out of an Ayn Rand novel. But I worked in software R&D and I knew better. Technocrats are not Ayn Rand heroes. They’re Ayn Rand villains.

The Peikovistas suffer the willful naivete of fanaticism. I could excuse the stereotypical thinking (it’s a heuristic, after all) if only they could apply the stereotypes more accurately. Put the right label on.

Bending the knee seems to have bent his mind beyond the breaking point.

Bill Gates has been very successful in an industry predicated upon the idea that action “A” pretty much results in result “B”. He’s never had to deal with the fact that people and the real world don’t function like that, or with anything near the worldview he’s internalized. He thinks that if he just explains to people how shitting in the street is bad, then they’ll stop doing it, and conform to his expectations. Reality? Most of his initiatives are going to founder on the sheer cussedness of human behavior. Look at how the whole anti-vaccination thing took hold, and how prevalent it is, even in theoretically First-World nations. It’s nuts–And, entirely human. The Bill Gates of this world do not know how to account for these factors, nor do they understand that they’re even a probable outcome of things.

There. I said it.