Melinda French Gates: U.S. billionaires "owe” something back to society

Melinda French Gates has a message to the world’s wealthiest about the necessity of giving back.

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00:00And so in your perspective, there is this moral responsibility for billionaires in this day and

00:05age. If you're a billionaire, let's just say if you're a billionaire in the United States,

00:10you benefited from this country. You benefited from good roads. You probably benefited somewhere

00:14along the way from the health sector, I hope. You probably benefited because maybe it was a

00:19good business climate and you could start your business, right? People in other places don't

00:23have those things. And so yes, we owe something back to society. And there are lots of ways to

00:29do it. You don't have to do it in any one way, but sure, we were lucky. Like to grow up in this

00:35country versus growing up somewhere like Niger, where I've been, go try to start a business in

00:40Niger. Go try to have a child in Niger. Women absolutely do it, but are they attended by a

00:47trained, skilled birth attendant? Not very often. And so more children die.