《Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King》原书 Anupreeta Das

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To my parents.

Introduction

There is a photograph of Bill Gates—easily searchable on the internet,

unmissable as a billboard—in which the Microsoft cofounder and billionaire

philanthropist is standing facing the camera, his lips pressed into the service of a

smile. There are four other men in the picture, taken in May 2011. Gates is

second from right, dressed in a blue collared shirt and one of his usual sweaters.

To his left stands a man with a buzz cut. To his right, at the center of the

photograph, is a man with a tousled mop of salt-and-pepper hair, his arms

folded. He is dressed in blue jeans and a half-zip sweater, the left arm of which is

emblazoned with the American ag. On his feet are velvet slippers.1 This man is

Jerey Epstein, the convicted sex oender, social parasite, poseur, and pariah

who died by his own hand in a Manhattan jail cell in August 2019. A month

earlier, federal authorities had charged Epstein with sex tracking of girls as

young as 14, and the world was learning of his lurid activities and the

astonishing array of high-prole men in his network. Of all the stars that

studded Epstein’s dark universe, from academics and entertainers to bankers and

billionaires, Gates was the brightest. He was also the most mystifying. Here was

one of the most recognized names and faces in the world, a visionary

technologist who helped kickstart the computing revolution, and a path-blazing

philanthropist with the lofty ambition of saving lives. Why was a deity of

capitalism consorting with one of its Mephistophelian bottom feeders?

There was no convenient label to ax to the relationship between Gates and

Epstein, and no label would have hidden the smudges that began to blur the

clear, unsullied outlines of the technology billionaire’s do-gooder image. The

photograph, which surfaced in 2019, accompanied a story by The New York

Times detailing multiple meetings between the two men. Two years later, in the

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