Too stingy! The world's richest man donated 690,000 yuan and was bombarded: You earned it back in half an hour

Rich people love to donate money to gain fame, and my brother-in-law is no exception. However, this time he did not gain fame, but was criticized instead.

In September 2019, wildfires broke out in the mountains of Australia, and have now been raging for nearly half a year. The entire country is like this.

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It is reported that the Australian wildfires have emitted 400 million tons of carbon dioxide, and the thick smoke can circle the earth . It seems that everyone's Ant Forest is in vain.

So far, the fire has killed at least 28 people, destroyed thousands of houses and caused economic losses of about 5 billion Australian dollars ( about 3.4 billion US dollars ) .

As wildfires raged, celebrities and tycoons from all over the world extended a helping hand and actively donated money to post-disaster reconstruction. Among them was the current world's richest man, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos , who is also our dear brother-in -law .

On November 13 , he personally stated that he would donate 1 million Australian dollars (about 690,000 US dollars) to Australia and announced the news through his personal Instagram :

Brother-in-law also shared a blog post on Amazon, asking users to purchase disaster relief items through his website and donate water, food, safety clothing, building materials, etc. to disaster relief efforts to help volunteers from the Australian volunteer organization BlazeAid carry out rescue work.

My brother-in-law donated money, which was supposed to be a good deed, and everyone should have praised him. However, he was criticized by many foreign netizens:

It can be seen that netizens are complaining that: my brother-in-law donated too little money !

According to Forbes' real-time rich list, Bezos' current net worth is $117.2 billion .

From October 2, 2017 to January 13 this year, Bezos' net assets increased by 3.5 billion US dollars. On average, he can earn about 23,600 US dollars (about 160,000 RMB) every minute .

For my brother-in-law, $690,000 was a piece of cake in less than half an hour .

When Amazon was doing its best in 2018, Bezos made an average of $ 700,000 every 5 minutes ...

What does this mean for ordinary people?

Some netizens calculated:

After seeing the conversion by netizens, everyone started to complain about Bezos, pointing out that many celebrities whose personal wealth is far less than Bezos's, their donations are not less than that of my brother-in-law. Let's take a look at how much they donated.

On the 11th of this month , Earth Alliance, an environmental protection organization co-founded by Leonardo Dicaprio , announced a donation of 3 million US dollars to Australia , which is suffering from the wildfire disaster , which is more than four times that of his brother-in-law .

" Thor " Chris Hemsworth donated $1 million . His personal assets are only $76 million, but his donation to Australia is comparable to that of Amazon.

Kylie Jenner of the Kardashian family donated $ 1 million , and American comedian Bette Midler donated $500,000. Her net worth is only a few hundred million dollars, not even a fraction of Bezos's ...

The largest individual donors were Western Australian mining magnate Andrew Forrest and his wife , who donated A$10 million .

According to foreign media reports, Bezos has been criticized by the public for being too stingy for a long time .

Bezos is the richest man in the world, but he is not generous to his employees.

The salary is so low that Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders couldn't help but criticize it. Last September, Sanders claimed that Bezos was the poster boy for income inequality. He also said that Bezos made more money in 10 seconds than the average worker makes in a year .

Because of low wages, Amazon employees often go on strike in Germany, France, Italy and other places .

Under pressure, Bezos had to implement an employee salary increase plan in October last year, but the employees' equity and other benefits were lost .

In addition to low salaries, the poor office environment is also the most complained about area by employees. However, there has been a significant improvement in recent years.

The brother-in-law is also stingy when it comes to donations . Last year, a foundation under Bezos announced that it would donate about $100 million to homeless projects , but British Labour Party leader Corbyn once mocked that Bezos' donation was only equivalent to 0.09% of his personal wealth .

In 2019, after my brother-in-law divorced his wife and divided his property, his wealth decreased significantly and he once left the throne of the world's richest man, but he still owns 75% of the shares of Amazon Group. Later, when the stock price went up, he regained the throne of the richest man.

So, he didn't spend too much money on the divorce . The real money was spent on the construction of Amazon's second headquarters . It is understood that Amazon is building its second headquarters in the eastern United States, and its first phase of the project covers an area of ​​about 200,000 square meters , which is where the big money is spent, not to mention the second and third phases ... In addition, Amazon is opening new sites around the world, such as Singapore and the Netherlands, which are also places where money is spent.

For many years, Bezos has refused to sign the " Giving Pledge " . In addition, Bezos has not yet joined the " Giving Pledge ", a charitable event initiated by Buffett and Bill Gates . This event aims to call on billionaires around the world to use at least half of their wealth for charity during their lifetime or after their death.

Interestingly, my brother-in-law’s ex-wife Mackenzie was already a member .

Although this agreement is not legally binding, compared with Gates and Buffett, Bezos, as the world's richest man, does seem too stingy . No wonder he is despised by netizens.

However, some netizens on the other side stood up and said that it is not Bezos' obligation to donate money, and he should not be morally blackmailed in any way.

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(Source: Cross-border Knowledge)