Charity stays at home for mean tycoon Ma
(STANDARD) 05月 20日 星期二 05:30AM
Guess how much Alibaba.com chairman Jack Ma who sits on a net worth of at least HK$4 billion has donated to victims of the Sichuan earthquake?
The English teacher-turned- internet-mogul gave the grand total of 1 yuan (HK$1.1).
At a time when the countrys unity is being put to the test, Ma shocked the world by saying: The major social responsibility of entrepreneurs in China is not to donate money, but to put their enterprises on the right track.
Even if one is rich, one should not be too keen to make a donation.
One could always invest more with more money, snowballing the enterprise into a much larger corporation and creating a lot more employment opportunities.
He added: I am not the sort of person who goes after fame. Money will do. Without money you cannot assume your social responsibility, cannot pay taxes, cannot create, and society will not progress.
Ma, pictured, has been severely criticized in the mainland, and rightly so. He may be filthy rich, but his attitude towards his fellow man stinks.