Corona donations

Their riches are everything in a pandemic. It allows them to comfortably isolate themselves while a lot of people can't. It allows quick testing and excellent medical care if needed. Money always talks. That they are willing to give some away to help others shouldn't be scoffed at even if the amount is small relative to their overall wealth.

I agree with Engineer.

And I would add that this pandemic isn't going to last forever. Their riches will still be there.

There will be some poor unfortunate (once independently wealthy) souls who might not escape the pandemic with their bank accounts from being fully depleted.

Especially if the economy goes full Great Depression Version 2.0.*

*Sorry. I know there were more Great Depressions that happened before 1929. I didn't want research and count them now.

Exactly, there were but "the Great Depression" is the one that has become a symbol of misery used to incite economic intervention.

We should stop focusing on fearing the Great Depression and start envisioning how to live sustainably; and then avoid allowing the sustainability visions to just turn into more stimulus, investments, and thus invigoration of the unsustainable aspects of the status quo.

I tell you what I mean .

Right now football is on hold, profit is not generated so millions of euros are lost in their income .

Giving away some millions now it will be solved earlier and they will start earning back earlier. It s more worth it for then. Their riches depends on fanatic fans.

Ronaldo (as a particular news said) will have 20 % of his yearly wage cut. So better for him things get back to normal and lose only 1 mln that 5 mln for example.

You don't seem to understand how wealth works. Ronaldo could have his salary cut by 100% and not care. Once you hit a certain wealth, it doesn't matter how much you earn because you effectively can't spend it all. There is not much difference in being worth 100 million or 150 million or 200 million euros. Nor are these donations going to shorten the economic slowdown from the virus. They aren't going to start games a week earlier because a few multimillionaires donated some money. The money will help out some at the bottom of the ladder and it's not a big deal to rich people giving it out. There is no reason to get bent because some people made a nice gesture nor do you need to bow at their feet.

Your understanding of basic math is pretty bad. He has a net worth of $400+M. $1 to 5M is at best 1%. He'll be fine. Even if he loses 80, 90% of his wealth to plummeting stock markets? He'll be set for life as a multimillionaire.

thank you for you bravery response and intelligent one to show us that what he is donating it s nothing , and that he should give that 80 percent for contribute to the cure and to handle the economy crisis because once that happen his wealth wort really nothing because he s not going to eat and cure himself with money .

Your grasp of English is so atrocious, none of this makes any sense.

From what I grasp of your butchering of English? I never suggested he donate any money, let alone 80% of his fortune. Even if he did give up 80%, he'd still have $92M. How in the frack would he starve to death on that?

Did somebody said he would starve to death?

All I wanted to remind you is , that all that money means nothing in a pandemic crisis .

And everyone disagreed with you. Money means a lot as everyone wrote in posts above. If someone with lots of it wants to donate some, no need to get angry or assume ulterior motives.

But I m right . Money means nothing during the process of a pandemic wiping humans . Survival skilled people will survive . And I bet ronaldo does not even know how to cook an egg lol

(laughing way too much... sore throat)

It s just like RUN DMC , it s like that and that s the way it is.