He's definitely a fake techie, just as Jobs was. But I feel he is a full fledged member of the higher elite. Not the highest of the high, but certainly one of their elite agents. As 007 is to M is to CGHQ. A few levels of remove from the very top, with a certain level of autonomy is executing his briefs. If you accept pop culture as an elite hidden-truth disclosure mechanism, "Pirates of Silicon Valley" (worth watching btw - it's very well made and changes color depending on the state of mind you watch it in) is very careful to present Gates as the low-key chess* player vs Jobs' flashy used-car-salesman persona, while painting both as tech-thieves as their core. And at Jobs' greatest moment of success, it's demonstrated that Gates had already outmaneuvered him in the marketplace because he didn't care about the product quality so much as being able to deliver it to the most amount of people at once - finding the killer app (cheap automated spreadsheeting in DOS's case) and exploiting it. Jobs required his computer to be visionary and "the best" to serve his fragile ego, while Gates literally did not give a fuck about appearances or flashy shit, just identifying a market dominance opportunity and pulling off-the-shelf shit together to lock it down. Which is what we're seeing with his universal chipping (cum social/govt/health/economic participation) concept. A concept at least as old as the Bible. His current behavior maps with his early MS era behavior. Complete with the rapid uptake of shitty untested 5G tech to make millimeter tracking possible. As then, he now has a huge invisible hand behind him helping him lock down similar market dominance of this new tech-based paradigm. And he (still) didn't have to know how to write even a line of code to do it. Never even had to invent a damn thing either. Only recognize coming trends and capabilities of pre and soon-to-be-existing technologies.  *Where you stand on Chess as an uber-tell for Machiavellianism and masonic coding is down to you, but as time goes on it feels more and more like one of their bigger (obfuscated) "disclosures" about themselves and their activities. Which is obviously a cause for worry as it's so solidly associated with Trump's bigger tactical moves right now and ongoing strategies. One can only hope he's attempting to beat them at their own game (so to speak), rather than playing us. But even Puttitout has lapsed into esoteric Masonic speak (his "Builders" speech) at times and Voat's own logo uses slightly rearranged "As Above, So Below" triangles - which also form the Star of David/Remphan when overlaid. TL;DR Gates' real job isn't to be "Tech Guy" so much as "Change Bringer". At which he has been extremely successful. The former is why everyone has been wondering out loud why the "computer guy" is suddenly the "vaccine guy". While the latter explains both his "Computer Guy" and "Vaccine Guy" roles perfectly. Elon Musk is another of these types. No doubt he too will "pivot" to a seeming new field in his turn when the time is right and whatever Tesla/SpaceX turns into becomes monolithic enough to be considered a new institution that no longer requires a "sole visionary" to sell it to the general population.