Bill Gates - Goalkeepers & Celebrating Global Heroes | The Daily Show

welcome back to the show great to be here first things first when the interview ends don't get up and leave immediately because people think it's like we're fighting and we're not I don't want to overstay my welcome yeah you just like I know that you have places to be but everyone who's revered did Bill Gates did you you a friend and was like no because what Bill Gates does when he's done he's done he gets up and he leaves everyone else is like hello crying boo games it's like I'm out I'm done that's how you become a billionaire welcome back to the show congratulations on another successful year of the goalkeepers event talk to us a little bit about goalkeepers because people know that you're involved in philanthropy people have heard of you and goalkeepers we see fantastic names like Yara Shahidi being involved but what is your intention with the goalkeepers event what are you trying to inspire in people well all the countries in the United Nations made a set of commitments to improve the state of life to get rid of disease to fix climate change and those goals sustainable development goals we need every year to sit down and look at are we making progress I need to celebrate the heroes who are inventing new tools or doing work in the field and we need to see if people are falling behind how do we double down on that and this is the one week of the year because the UN is coming together that we you know focus attention on these super important long-term issues what I enjoy as well as I was lucky to be part of the event last year and what I enjoyed was it's not an event that's focused solely on on the leaders of the countries but it's on the people in the countries who are leading themselves so you you you have an event where I think this year was over 400 people predominantly below the age of 40 and more than 50% of them are young women who are doing amazing things in their countries what are some of the projects that they're undertaking that that really impress you well on the ground the idea of getting new seeds to farmers educating them so they can deal with climate change and have more productivity there's women farmers are educating other women farmers women are creating women's groups where they come together educate each other about avoiding childhood marriage talk about is is the government is the teacher showing up rights are the vaccines there and that kind of accountability really grows up from the community level particularly with women as they band together and and so that's the kind of movement that we want to scale up and you know in fact we'd love to see it all over Africa it's it's something that's growing in Africa and and one thing that has struck me is you're one of the most optimistic people I've met and part of me goes because you're a billionaire you know I would look at me like yeah I'm optimistic because of that but but you you you've been on the ground for a long time and you've seen massive changes predominantly in Africa and in Asia as well you voice said to me the world is getting better progressively it doesn't mean we can stop but the world is getting better but then I ask you Bill Gates why does it feel like the world is getting worse well the nature of news is that you're gonna read about a plane falling out of the sky or a natural disaster if we go through years with no plane wrecks and when you put that headline there extreme poverty has gone from 36 percent to 9 percent and so every day for 25 years you could have run a headline 137,000 moved out of extreme poverty today that would be real news and yet it would feel kind of weird right ah and so improvement is this gradual thing we've cut child to deaths in half over the last 25 years you know we've raised agricultural productivity and you know there's a lot of amazing heroes behind that and so really understanding this framework that we focus so much on what's not done right that we we can miss the lessons of what really works extremely well that's an interesting paradox because it feels like that's the space that not just the general population is in but also the presidents of the United States because Donald Trump has not been afraid to say he's not a fan of giving money to other countries he's not a fan of foreign aid he doesn't understand why America pays for any other country I read an article in The Washington Post about how they asked you to come to the White House to explain to the president why foreign aid is important and like I would I would like to know like if you were explaining it to a toddler how would you explain how would you explain not that the president is I'm just saying if you were how would you explain foreign aid to somebody why would you say the United States should help any other country and give them money well it's less than 1% of our budget when you ask people they think it's 5 or 10% but it's it's fairly small although we have such big budget it's 30 billion a year that 30 billion is keeping over 14 million people alive with HIV medicines and if we keep them alive eventually we'll have a vaccine and then we'll stop people from getting infected but for now we need to keep those drugs going out there something America should be very proud of it started under President Bush but it's been very bipartisan called PEPFAR and so most people don't get to see these things in action see how many kids are surviving from malaria because those bednets got out there or vaccines got out there Melinda and I get to travel to Africa we get to look at this data and you know thank God that American taxpayers are so generous this is what can get countries out of poverty allow those countries to be self-sufficient and stable that means we won't have to send soldiers there we won't have epidemics starting there and the world economy will grow and we'll all you know participate in the middle income or a better life that everyone on the planet should have when you look at philanthropy you you have to look at it through a very specific lens because a lot of people have a misconception and that is those who have the money can just give it to those who do not and then the problems of the world are solved but the truth is philanthropy cannot fix these problems so what are you looking to do because even if you gave all of your money to a charity the truth is it is a drop in the bucket compared to the government's budget any government in the world so what are you actually trying to do then well plant B is able to take risks like inventing a new vaccine you know we can pick scientists and get behind doubts we can add to whatever the government's doing there we can understand these community or sessions give them some money and and show they get results and hope that the government will get behind those new approaches the idea of improving seeds actually the Rockefeller Foundation funded the Green Revolution that saved hundreds of millions in Asia because the the crops were so much more productive now we need to do that again to fight against climate change and the smallholder farmers will suffer from that so we can make risky bets and you know if you come up with improvements then you've really got to go to the government's because as you say of the world economy philanthropy is 0.1 percent not gigantic but enough to back scientists enough to back pilot studies enough to try and change the culture of some of these delivery systems so that they really work well you know over time we'll get digital tracking and so you can say when you went to the primary health care system where the vaccines there or did the teacher do a good job so we want we need the government's over time to take on new ideas including these accountability systems it's always exciting speaking to you I know that the goalkeepers event is moving forward I know this year you celebrated a hundred years of Nelson Mandela and how he inspired goalkeepers looking at his legacy looking at the people you've spoken to what are you hoping that as as humanity we can achieve in the coming years where we had brought Michelle who is Nelson Mandela's wife come and she was so eloquent about how he believed in principles and he stuck with them even when it looked bleak so some things look bleak right now some of the trends don't look all that good humans aren't as willing to help each other you know and take these kind of long-term views and solve these tough problems but you know he was such an example and you know that that's incredibly inspiring I think the young people in the room were all tearing up but she talked about him and how we should all take that spirit of sticking with what we believe in and and carry it forward thank you so much for being on the show the Gates Foundation the goalkeepers across those gates people who gates everybody [Music] [Music] you

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Length: 8min 57sec (537 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 02 2018