Chapter 39: The Cloak of Charity

Business is very realistic. It will reward you accordingly based on the returns you bring to it.

There is a very strong positive correlation between them.

Therefore, the Gates Foundation was able to offer a sky-high price of five million US dollars. This price was a sky-high price not only for a doctoral student, but even for Bavandi. If he did not help the company with some research, it would be impossible for him to get this annual salary relying on his university salary.

Chen Yuanguang was very curious about what the so-called global health project of the Gates Foundation was doing.

After Lin Jia came back from China, he kept talking about what he had seen in China and the differences in the granularity of government management between China and Western countries.

"Yuan Guang, to be honest, China's mobilization capabilities are amazing. In the process of responding to the virus, China's management granularity can be refined to every street and every community.

If this were wartime, the potential for war would be terrifying, meaning we would be able to mobilize every level of organization.

The European and American countries can only manage cities at most. This is not just a political reason, but also a cultural reason. "

Because she had left the country before the virus hit, it was very difficult for Lin Jia to even charter a flight back home. After she returned, she found that China had gradually returned to normal and the situation seemed to be well under control.

She was thinking about why the West didn't learn China's problem-solving methods. Later, thinking about her own experiences on the streets of Paris, London and Berlin, Lin Jia realized that it was not that they didn't want to learn, but that their form was unable to do it.

Even in America, only core developed cities such as New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles have such mobilization capabilities and willingness.

Chen Yuanguang listened quietly to Lin Jia's experiences after returning to China. After he finished speaking, he began to talk about the offers he had received and the responses he had taken.

“I didn’t reject the offer from the Gates Foundation outright, but said I would think about it again.

What do you think of the titles, treatment and promises they give? "

After Lin Jia returned to China, she kept seeing news about Chen Yuanguang. Her friends also often sent her WeChat messages, expressing their envy that she had found a genius student.

After listening to Chen Yuanguang's words, she realized that as the center of the storm, the impact she received was dozens of times greater than hers.

"The Gates Foundation can afford this money. They are a very profitable company. Don't treat them as a charity.

When I was at Columbia University last year, I had a project studying global charitable organizations. The Gates Foundation is very large. They donate billions of dollars every year, and last year, in 2019, its annual revenue exceeded 300 billion euros.

They are a behemoth in themselves, and under the guise of charity, they are fully capable of helping you run the Nobel Prize.

I think it's possible for you to eat the pie they paint.

Because if you sign a contract with them, your ability is the most important thing. They think you have great potential and believe that you can help them in theory.

At the same time, the Gates Foundation certainly hopes that their global health project will have a gimmick and a hot spot for hype.

When it comes to propaganda in underdeveloped regions, our chief scientist is a giant in the scientific community and the youngest Nobel Prize winner in modern times.

As for helping you run the Nobel Prize, they donate at least $10 billion to scientific research institutions around the world every year, and they have been doing this for more than 20 years. It is also spending money. You pay taxes, and the government helps you spend the money. The decision-making power is not in your hands. When public universities receive the money, they think it is a government grant and it is a matter of course.

You spend the money under the guise of tax avoidance, and you have the final say on which organization or project the money is donated to. You hold the power to allocate resources, and the organizations, projects, and people who receive these resources naturally have to acknowledge this "favor."

In a country like China where this system of practice is not yet so mature, this is a matter of personal relationships. In countries like Europe and the United States, where charity operations are already very mature, this is a contract, which is not a contract but is better than a contract.

If Foundation A donates money to you and you don’t give it the due return, then not only will Foundation A stop giving you money in the future, but other foundations will also stop donating. It’s more powerful than a contract.”

After listening to this, Chen Yuanguang was surprised at the advanced methods used by Europe and America. He felt that Lin Jia knew a lot, so he asked curiously, "Is the population control plan that is circulating online true?

Is the Gates Foundation truly charitable or is it just trying to control the population of the third world? "

As a former online writer, Chen Yuanguang is very interested in this kind of conspiracy theory.

Lin Jia said: “I don’t know, my view is that charity must be real, if it was fake the evidence would have been exposed long ago.

The Prism project has been exposed. If there is something shady about the Gates Foundation, these Western media will definitely not let it go.

As for population control, I think this purpose is also involved, but the way I think of achieving it is different from the way conspiracy theorists believe it is.

They may think that some people can live to be eighty years old, and some people can only live to be forty years old, so they use a series of means to make those who can live to be eighty years old live to be eighty years old, and those who can only live to be forty years old let them die early at the age of twenty.

This is also population control. Through layers of screening, only genes for longevity and health survive in a certain area, and then the secret to prolonging life is sought among these genes.

I guess they have similar intentions in finding you, thinking that you have a rare talent in the field of biological computing, and hope that you can help them continue to solve the mystery of human life span."

Lin Jia continued, "The obsession of these wealthy people in Europe and America with longevity is much more serious than that of the wealthy in China. The wealthy in China want to live longer, but they just burn incense and worship Buddha. It is already very rare for them to donate hospitals and laboratories.

What these wealthy people in the West like most is to donate to hospitals and biological experimental institutions, and even serve as test subjects in longevity research programs themselves. "

Chen Yuanguang was thinking, wouldn’t a future with an average life expectancy of 120 years be a paradise for modern society?

The modern technology of being able to further extend lifespan through hibernation would probably drive these rich people crazy.

Seeing Chen Yuanguang thinking, Lin Jia continued, "The Gates Foundation's global health project is the main direction of their entire charitable donations, accounting for about 30%.

Have you ever thought about where you will go in the future? Will you stay in the university here, or go back to China to study in a university, or do you have other ideas? "

Chen Yuanguang thought about it and decided to reveal some of his true thoughts to Lin Jia: "I currently want to start a business.

I want to start some cutting-edge technology businesses, such as materials science and biology. I haven’t decided on the specific direction yet, and I haven’t decided whether to return to China or start a business here. ”

(End of this chapter)