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Richard Hanania @RichardHanania Читать С Исходный язык: английский Показать оригинал Фукуяма о встрече с Каддафи: «У него было нулевое представление о богатстве: богатство нельзя создать, его можно только отнять у кого-то другого. Я тогда спросил его, откуда Билл Гейтс — в то время один из богатейших людей в мире — взял свои деньги. Каддафи сказал, что он украл их у своих клиентов. Я указал, что они получили взамен полезное программное обеспечение; он немного подумал и сказал, что Гейтс украл это у компаний, которые производили компьютеры». Оцените этот перевод: • Ф Thus began several hours of one-on-one discussions (if that's what you can call them) with the Libyan dictator that extended into a second visit in early 2007. Qaddafi was a reasonably bright but extremely poorly educated military officer who had staged a coup and become dictator of his country at the age of twenty-seven. He never had any form of higher education and his head was filled with endless conspiracy theories and crazy ideas. His Green Book propounded a theory of direct democracy in which "basic people's congresses" would meet at a grassroots level and debate all policy issues with no higher- level representation. In fact, he attacked political representation as undemocratic. Qaddafi claimed that this would be a "third way" between US and Communist approaches, but of course it was nothing but a cover for his personal control of the country. Since he'd become a dictator at such a young age, there was never anyone to tell him that his ideas were nonsense and that he should go back to school and learn the basics. His limitations were evident from the beginning. He had a zero-sum view of wealth: wealth could not be created, only taken from someone else. I asked him then where Bill Gates-at that time one of the richest men in the world- got his money. Qaddafi said he stole it from his customers. I pointed out that they got useful software in return; he thought about it a bit and said that Gates stole it from the companies that made computers. But I said that these companies were themselves very wealthy, making money selling computers with Gates's software. The "Leader" then conceded that perhaps this wealth was created rather than stolen, but he quickly asserted that this could only happen in the West. In the Middle East, value only moved from one pocket to another and was never created. This actually made a certain amount of sense for a country whose only valuable product was oil that just gushed out of the ground; either you owned it or someone else did. He mentioned in a speech a couple of weeks later that in the West value could be created, and the Monitor people thought that was a big breakthrough. 6:46 РМ - 6 нояб. 2026 г. • 120,1 тыс. просмотра 49 L1 289 • 2 тыс. L707