is Gates better than Mother Theresa?
Steven Pinker considers the question in The Moral Instinct in the NY Times magazine.
Mother Teresa was the very embodiment of saintliness: white-clad, sad-eyed, ascetic and often photographed with the wretched of the earth. Gates is a nerd’s nerd and the world’s richest man, as likely to enter heaven as the proverbial camel squeezing through the needle’s eye.