Bill Gates on HS In a recent speech, Bill Gates pointed out that American high schools were designed to send a few kids to college and keep most kids off the street until they were old enough for unskilled labor. Out of the mouths of billionaires...

This puts me in mind of an idea my dad is putting forth, which is that investor capitalism might end up being a positive social transformative force. With the actual government in the hands of corrupt millionaires scrounging for more money for their friends and their re-election campaigns, it's only the Concerned Billionaires like Buffett, Soros, Gates, and others (who, BTW, are mostly self-made billionaires) who have the necessary level of "disinterestedness" to really champion what they think is right. Of course, this is exactly what the founding fathers had in mind.

A benevolent plutocracy.

Well, this other thing doesn't seem to be working so well, so why not?

I say, all of the Concerned Billionaires should follow Jon Corzine's example and buy themselves a Senate seat.  ¶ 9:24 AM