Using the comedy central, yes and tonight, as the co founder of Microsoft and one of the world's leading philanthropists through his work at the bill and Melinda this foundation. Please welcome bill gates, shop grid, to be here, but to see you again and congratulations on all the work that you ve been doing. I've always wanted to know how do you go from being the richest man in the world and not chasing what everyone thinks they were chase, which is like the yachts and going on I'm gonna end malaria. That's what I wanted my money. Well, my wife and I talked a lot about where this money could go back and have the biggest impact and are one of the big areas we picked. This is health global. How,

making sure that a lot less children die and big diseases like HIV get cured by end? The and the foundation has been part of some amazing work around the globe. Just looking at the work that you ve done, would you say that the world is in a better place, not just because of what you ve done, but but the world as a whole? Do you think the world is in a better place than it's been? Maybe twenty thirty years ago, absolutes it studying how whether its literacy or less workplace accidents, child children diamond five violence is Holt the world to improving and in our role, is to take where that's been done really well in my accelerate a little bit get some scientists to come up with breakthrough some more quickly, but that framework that things are hard basically working

and in an even poorer countries, now have longer life expectancies than the very richest country had just two hundred years ago. I'm surprised it's in people aren't aware of bad, it's kind of the baseline of where we are, but how can we say that things are getting better when it see Like things are getting worse, you you, you see it on the news, you're saying Syria you're, seeing the refugee crisis Europe towards a you reading. All of these. These men more with the rohingya. It feels, like things, are getting worse or they haven't been this bad before that's right, people learn no more today about the bad things going on

world and I'm not making light of those things that all we have. Five million children year die before the the age of five used me twelve million twenty five years ago, rights so getting from twelve to five pretty spectacular. But now we have to feel terrible about that. So we cut it to two point: five and even less partly it's the nature of news news. If you improve slowly, but surely you get vaccines, outlets kids are dying. They set a headline it just. You know that that idea, that seven million less per year

dine it's not going to get coverage because it's not it there's no photograph of the grave with no child or something right, and also people are always aging, and so they have this perspective. Ok, when I was young and energetic things were better, and so there's this bias about. Ok, the world was wonderful. Still, I am, I am surprised, and I'm actually trying to get the word out so that people say ok, because progress, let's go see where did it best and and do even better? How do you? How do you then keep people inspired and motivated to do good things, because, on the one hand you say Trevor, I need your help. We To fight malaria and we need to think of ways to get young girls into school around the world and on the other hand, you go thing,

better than ever before, and then I go well so do need my help. Cannot it's true? If, if, if we're comparing over time, you might think or we could be complacent, but the beauty of this is that our tolerance for children dying are tolerance for violence. Mistreating re, sir, are women are times for that is gone down. So if you look at life magazine from when I was growing up, they'd have pictures of me

spanking women insane. You know she bought the wrong coffee. You know by this coffee, and we, as that was on a magazine, was in life magazine, which was a very mainstream in on the family com table type magazine, and it was considered okay now we'd, like that say that belongs in some ass, an M located in a coffee, I'd, so our sensitivity, and that that is a great thing. The fact that its taboo, you know that men don't dual, we dont ground which, as you know, we think of slavery, is in

completely awful thing except Charlottesville, but yeah? There are setbacks and me, let me close by night, a new no just steadily decreasing, so HIV came along right in a big setback. Civil wars like in Syria, in terrible setback in I'm working on trying to get polio eradicated and are now in this, the serious civil war. We have cases, and it's very tough- to to get the vaccines out. When you have that kind of violence. Now some people would say bill gates. You have billions of dollars. Why don't you just fix it all yourself? Just coming you want to do it just pay the money and fix the things, but its surprising to find that it takes a lot more money than even you have to fix these problems. That's right

I'm super lucky. Warren Buffett has given a lot of his wealth, tore foundation rights and I had the success of Microsoft. But even so, what we spend is about an eighth as much in helping poor countries as the U S, government spends and so in all the governments of the world are the key for HIV. Medicine are all this aid irritants less than one percent of the Eu S budget to help in a ninety five percent of the world's people, rights with all of their their tops, but that's the big money and so making sure that people know that it's working, and so they are willing to say that one percent should be preserved. That's a key fight! If an American says bull, why should Americans pay for the problems of another country? Why should Americans even give that one percent of our budget away? It's not it's an american american money. It's not an american,

well it I, my top response, will be a humanitarian one. Is that we're all in this together? If for a small amount of money, you can help get a vaccine? Ten cent vaccine for measles out two kids, you, want to do that. But even if you take a very you eurocentric view that you don't want pandemics sweeping across the world and coming here, you don't want instability so that we have to spend a hundred times as much sending our army, in which sometimes we have to do that. If you can give the money and make life there better, not have mass refugees who, in fleeing a country, is not an attractive thing. If we can lift up those countries which we have a history of

places like India and Brazil are now very self sufficient? South Korea got aid now they ve turned around their very generously giver. I can defend that one percent, if it was ten percent. Ok then you're starting to trade off against tough problems here, but at that level in a we should feel great about it. An unlucky I get don't see the impact of that that you are spending. Let me ask you this before I ask ya before I let you go. I just wanted to find out. How do you? How do you get a billionaire to give you all of them, Many, like you say, Warren Buffett gave you his money and as many other billionaires like directing my money like this

not methodically. Let's say I wanted to get a billion. Give me all of their money up. How do I go about like? How do you start the conversation? How did well, in fact, or not giving it to me Jimmy, but they giving it gets through. You know when you have that degree of success. You're not really talking about personal debt probation raw in a little bit. You have to decide if you're trying to started aristocratic dynasty, you know so that all the money in it stays in your family and that's ok, you're free to do that. But I think when you're that successful, ideally pick a disease should pick a cause, and I think you get a lot of fulfilment and so I've been amazed American,

very generous, we have more big philanthropists than any other country. Other countries like China and India are hopeful that the same tradition develops and people are nice. You know some people dont like to think about their death them, and you say: ok, you're gonna have to give it away, could can take with you. It does force him to think about how much they are giving to their kids and that they won't live forever. So I won't say it's an easy topic to bring up, but I think it's great for people to give it more thought. I'm glad you agree to give us more. Thank you. Thank you. So much has a major role, hates everybody.

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