The Multi-Million Dollar Tip
So after talking about some nasty shit for Thanksgiving, today I would like to discuss how we show our gratitude. There is nothing easier than saying "thanks" and pretending to care. Actually showing that you are humbled by what you have and giving back is truly admirable. Earlier this week, a once in a lifetime good guy did just that.
According to local news reports, a man in Sydney, Australia left an Italian bistro called Café Marco and left behind a suitcase with roughly $1.28 million in $50 dollar bills. Now, let's look past our own grizzled, sarcastic views and focus on the positive. So what if I haven't seen a $50 bill since 1/8ths were peddled hand-to-hand in plain views of Times Square. So what if carrying this amount of cash in a suitcase reeks of ransom, extortion, bribery or whatever vice, bunco squad related activity you can think of.
I am going to focus on the positive and assume that this guy really just has a shitload of dough and decided to make some waitress happy like Nicolas Cage.
Since we're all back from our gobble gobble pig outs, maybe we can debate what it means to really show your gratitude. We talk all day long about cars, homes and whores (pardon, trophy wives) we would buy if there were a loose nine or ten zeroes in our bank accounts.
How about what we would give back?
Give me your best story of what philanthropic deed you would perform with a mill plus...
I would probably invest in clear heeled stilettos and pink rubber whips for the NYPD, so our OWS buddies could feel more accepted and within their element while getting chased from Zuccotti Park.
Either that or I'd donate to the Fred Wilpon bailout package...
I'm not sure, how about you?
Since I volunteer in the kids department at a battered women's shelter, I'd dontate it to that department and help them expand with more educational/learning capabilities. They really need more things for the kids.
Buy North Korea and let them join the South.
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Being serious, I would donate to help repair the environment as I feel that us homo sapiens (I'm a hetero sapien) have really wrecked it almost beyond repair. When I was young I enjoyed playing with caterpillars and gazing at the stars. I'd be devastated to think that our future generations won't have this. This might be in electric cars, preventing deforestation, helping promote/improve recycled goods etc.
Midas, I am sure that was not a tip. Anonymous tipster leaving $50 large ones in a suitcase? Btw with 1 mil I would open a hospital and school in a third world country.
F the third world. There's enough poverty in our own back yard.
This. I hate all the bullshit about people saying I wan to give back so they go to Africa or some other 3rd World place. How about the people in your local city who are suffering they don't need help because they live in America?
If I had a few million I'd set up a shelter for kids in the inner city who want to have a new lease on life and have an opportunity to get an education and try to end the viscous cycle of poverty, drugs and abuse.
some people value the ones close to them/with some kind of ties to them more over the distant ones, other people want to help out everyone in the world equally. There's nothing to hate.
Not sure if you two are being sarcastic or are actually that fucking ignorant and stupid.
I am from the third world and poverty in U.S. is not even close
I would remember how the world treated me when I was worse off and at the bottom, and try to get my revenge for it, rather than give back anything to anyone. Humanity is built atop and a production of selfishness (read The Selfish Gene), and as such will never reward "good" (altruistic) behavior. Instead, it would rather value looks and status... in short, fuck the world
I would hire planes to distribute large quanities of porn to people in remote regions of China. This way the average people of China can know of the greatness of capitalism.
open up a mcdonalds franchise and hire ows protesters
put it all on red
I would help people in a 3rd world country. How about we stop throwing money at citizens of the most prosperous nation and help people who have zero shot at life.
But yeah, a poor dude in NYC is just as disadvantaged as some kid in Africa dying because he can't get 3 spoonfuls of rice.
C'mon man, you can still survive in the U.S. with coupons/stamps, there are soup kitchens where you can get food, and different charities etc. I am not saying that life is great for poor Americans but I dont hear a mother killing her 5 children because she cant feed them or a guy burning himself because he cant get his mother into a hospital. Go to any third world country news site and search. if you still think its not bad enough then please go to Africa or sub-continent.
The only thing I'll give to homeless/poor Americans is that they have to see Ferraris, high rise apts ,silicon boobs and fat fucks eating at McDonalds; knowing they cant live that life.
^^ I am agreeing with you dude. Poverty in the US is nothing compared to other countries. Besides, I will donate to whatever the fuck I want.
JDawg, you're a politically correct moron, with all due respect. Have you EVER been to Eastern Kentucky? I would put the poverty of parts of Eastern Kentucky and West Virginia up against the poverty in almost any other country. Ever been to St. Louis, Detroit, SE Washington, D.C., etc.? They're not as bad off as, say, Riwanda, but they are our countrymen. I don't understand pissing away your money into a hopeless African or Indian situation while there are tens of millions of impoverished Americans who, with assistance, can actually impact the world. Send your money to Riwanda and you feed a kid for a few weeks. "Invest" in Americans and you could change the world.
I would start an after-school program for high schoolers to teach the glorious art of heavy metal music as a philosophy of life.
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