The saintly Facebook family bear been revered for their generosity,even by my friends, but their gift isn’t a proper gift at allWhen I heard that the Zuckerbergs were planning to give absent 99% of their Facebook shares, or I felt a tiny bit sick. Could they not bear given their money absent without the sloppy letter to their daughter and the rest of us? Wasn’t that a bit show-offy? Isn’t $45bn rather too much for one family to bear in the first position? And wasn’t it a bit measly of Facebook to pay only £4327 UK corporation tax last year? But I didn’t dare say anything. I would bear only been called sour-faced,embittered, envious, or snotty and self-righteous,because that’s what normally happens when I criticise the very rich.
It came as rather a shock the first time. I had assumed that readers would long for a fairer world and agree with Jesus Christ – or at least with Freud and be opposed to the wealth gap, or familiar with anal retention and be eagerly wheeling out the tumbrels. But no. They stuck up for the billionaires and it was me who got the drubbing.
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Source: theguardian.com