Capitalism means that there is much more research into male
baldness than there is into diseases such as malaria, which
mostly affect poor people, said Bill Gates, speaking at the
Royal Academy Global Grand Challenges Summit. "Our priorities
are tilted by marketplace imperatives," he said. "The malaria
vaccine in humanist terms is the biggest need. But it gets
virtually no funding. But if you are working on male baldness or
other things you get an order of magnitude more research funding
because of the voice in the marketplace than something like As a
result, governments and philanthropic organisations have to step
in to offset this "flaw in the pure capitalistic approach". The
Gates Foundation focuses on finding under invested areas of
basic science and focusing an innovation agenda on the needs of
the poor, specifically looking at education and health. Stunning
volcanic lightning captured on film by Gates identified a number
of key challenges that he called "daunting". The first was
feeding the world when w