Microsoft founder and philanthropist gazillionaire Bill Gates told the Wall Street Journal that capitalism is passé and what the world needs now is love, sweet love.

Noble, but still, isn’t that a little convenient coming from the richest guy alive?

In the article (sorry guys, it’s subscriber-protected), he called for a new “creative capitalism” that would serve the world’s poor as well as big businesses. However:

Mr. Gates acknowledges that Microsoft early on was hardly a charity. “We weren’t focused on the needs of the neediest,” he said, “although low-cost personal computing certainly is a tool for drug discovery and things that have had this very pervasive effect, including the rise of the Internet,” he said.

Blah blah fishcakes. He also apparently developed the idea during a first-class flight back from a family vacation in New Zealand. Now that’s irony.