But we easily forget that until Gates stepped aside from his business to, yes, save the world, hewas widely despised as someone who gave us products that vexed us and made our lives harder in as many ways as they helped us, who often seemed to be in it for corporate enrichment and domination above all.
As he saw it now, the more a person wasdespised, the more he or she resembled Jesus in his last agonies, when hewas abandoned by almost all the people he had come to save.
He vigorously practiced what is now known as investigative journalism, not because business was inherently bad but because hedespised "bad actors, " those who were cheating investors, customers, employees.