We Can Eradicate Malaria Within a Generation
Before the Gates Foundation and The Giving Pledge, billionaires usually did three things:<p>1. Buy fancy yachts.<p>2. Continue running the business that made them rich.<p>3. Spend a token amount on a feel-good charity. The  Foundation to Prevent Euthanasia of Cute Puppies or Whatever.<p>Gates has managed to convince them of another option:<p>4. Spend wealth to alleviate large causes of suffering that few/no groups are working on.<p><i>More than 3.3 million people who would have died of malaria are alive today.</i><p>I realize he can't take full responsibility for that, but considering all he's done, Bill Gates is a living saint.