Jared Evan

(TJV NEWS)  In a recent interview with the Financial Times, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates lashed out at Elon Musk, accusing the Tesla and SpaceX CEO of “killing the world’s poorest children” by allegedly supporting budget cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Gates singled out funding reductions to a hospital in Mozambique, suggesting they led to increased infant HIV infections.

“The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one,” Gates said. “I’d love for him to go in and meet the children that have now been infected with HIV because he cut that money.”

But this statement—delivered with moral outrage—rings hollow coming from a man whose global health legacy is deeply entangled with population control ideologies, eugenics-adjacent funding, and top-down interventions in the developing world. If there is anyone whose actions have historically impacted vulnerable populations in morally questionable ways, it’s Gates himself.

🧬 Bill Gates and the Population Control Agenda

For years, Gates has openly discussed his belief that reducing population growth is essential to fighting poverty and climate change. In a 2010 TED Talk, he infamously said:

“The world today has 6.8 billion people. That’s heading up to about nine billion. Now, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by, perhaps, 10 or 15 percent.”

While Gates later claimed he meant slowing population growth through improved child survival, his philanthropic track record suggests more than benign intent.

His foundation has funneled billions into partnerships with organizations like:

• International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)

• Marie Stopes International

• UN Population Fund (UNFPA)

These groups have been linked to coercive sterilization programs, especially in India and sub-Saharan Africa, where informed consent was often lacking and poor women bore the brunt of the interventions.

Even as Gates now frames himself as a savior of “the world’s poorest children,” his foundation’s money has supported programs where reproductive control—not child survival—was the priority.

⚠️ The Hypocrisy of Attacking Musk

Gates’ attacks on Elon Musk come amid their long-standing personal and ideological rivalry. Musk once rejected a philanthropic overture from Gates over his $500 million short position against Tesla—a company leading the transition to sustainable energy.

“Sorry, but I cannot take your philanthropy on climate change seriously when you have a massive short position against Tesla,” Musk told Gates in leaked text messages.

Now, Gates is attempting to smear Musk by blaming him for policy shifts in a government agency Musk himself doesn’t control. Worse, Gates frames Musk—a father of 11 and vocal advocate of population growth—as a threat to poor children, even while his own funding history is full of programs that limited births, sterilized women, and exercised top-down medical control.

🔍 So Who’s Really Harming the Vulnerable?

Let’s recap:

• Musk promotes technological innovation, energy independence, and pro-natalist values.

• Gates funds organizations with histories of population control and ethically questionable practices, particularly targeting the Global South.

Gates also announced plans for his foundation to spend another $200 billion over the next two decades, continuing a model of elite-driven global health that many now question—not for what it achieves, but how and at what cost.

Meanwhile, Gates has never apologized for or even seriously addressed the eugenics-aligned outcomes of many of his foundation’s population initiatives.

📌 Conclusion: Moral Authority, or Manufactured Outrage?

Bill Gates accusing Elon Musk of “killing poor children” is not just inflammatory—it’s a projection. It distracts from Gates’ own legacy of funding interventions that, under the banner of “reproductive health,” have often devalued the agency and dignity of the world’s poorest.

In a time when global trust in elite philanthropy is rapidly eroding, Gates’ attack on Musk reads less like a call for justice—and more like a desperate attempt to control a narrative he’s no longer equipped to manage.