Gates doesn&#x27;t govern any countries and he&#x27;s not in charge of any global policies. Also, he is not superman and he doesn&#x27;t have infinite resources. He&#x27;s just trying to find niches where a rich geek can make a difference. Child vaccination was a good example.<p>Significantly, he&#x27;s trying to do practical things to improve the lives of poor people in the third world, as opposed to founding libraries or building more William Gates computer buildings at elite universities.<p>It&#x27;s fair to judge what he does against what he <i>could</i> do, but it&#x27;s unreasonable to judge him for what he can&#x27;t do.