Rich People Have Moral Responsibility for Humanitarian
Posted December 6th, 2009 by Ananda Perwira No Comments »
“The rich people should be grateful over the priceless gift from God. They will still continue to get it as long as they keep managing their charity for helping community. Thus they will have dignity for themselves.”
The Sentence was pronounced by Andrew Carnegie, a United States industrialist a century ago. This nouveau riche is so sure that rich people have moral responsibility to share the profits by giving charity donations. He stressed that all the wealth that exceeds the needs of a family is considered as grants for the welfare of the people.
If the nouveau riche were still alive, he might be moved to see the trend among nouveau riche and other rich people after him. Many of American rich people donate their wealth for the purpose of social and humanitarian such as Ted Tuner who spearhead the new era for rich people by donating USD 1 Million to support UN activities for humanitarian in September 1997.
Two years later, the richest people in the world, the other US nouveau riche, Bill Gates put himself in a monumental action in the history of philanthropic. The owner of giant software company, Microsoft, donated USD 16.5 Billion through his social foundation to help poor people in health. Read the rest of this entry »