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Originally Posted by Damien
She's donated a lot more than that I think, the figure is from 2012 and last year she was one of the biggest givers again: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...uses-year.html
But you can't win, here is someone who produced a remarkable British success story, whose work has been a massive cultural benefit to Britain and increased tourism and donates millions and millions to charity each year but she'll still be a hypocrite and greedy. People seem incapable of believing other people can be nice, generous and have decent intent. |
How much money do they need? How many millions is enough? How many properties which stand largely empty when they're not at home and hardly bursting at the seams when they are at home? If they're going to moralise about generosity, poverty, homelessness etc. they can expect to have the reality about their own extraordinary wealth pointed out along with any of the excesses which they choose to avail themselves of. Someone with £50m in the bank and homes around the globe could easily 'win' by giving away most of it and living in one or even two homes like most of us mere mortals - albeit a lot bigger and nicer of course and comfortably far away from any of the 'worthy' social causes they say they support so as not to be inconvenienced by them. Furthermore these people don't suddenly stop earning when they donate, they have massive annual income which can easily replace what they've donated, all too often off the back of the rest of us who buy their products, watch their films or whatever. The truth is that when you have more money than you know what to do with it's really not difficult to 'donate' what to the rest of us would be sums approaching or exceeding a lifetime's income. That doesn't render you immune from criticism when hypocrisy is evident however.