Bill Gates just shared a brutal truth very few people are willing to admit. It all goes back to a decision he announced on January 13, 2000 | Inc.

This week, Bill Gates’s biggest announcement was that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will spend billions to quickly build seven manufacturing facilities, so that when vaccines for Covid-19 are identified, they can be mass produced quickly. But, there’s a brutal truth reflected in the Gates plan, which is that the effort will involve knowingly wasting lots and lots of money.