Queue up: Rich guy gives away 2 million baht cash to the poor

[mrfill]

7 hours ago, cardinalblue said:

People need to earn the money....create incentives just don't hand it out

 

alcoholics and druggies will put it to bad use...

 

should have some type of screening mechanism where the wealthy buy up all the low income housing property so they can profit by it....

 

does free welfare work?

Just like inherited wealth then.

[Jonmarleesco]

18 hours ago, elliss said:

 A  three  year  old  baby , was  crushed  in the stampede  for the money .    This kind  man is  a super rich property owner in Udon , Preecha market. 

        farlangs rich ? , really .            

You edited your original post ... and I still don't understand it.

[Jonmarleesco]

Good for him; especially doing it this way rather than giving to the temples.

[laocowboy2]

9 hours ago, wombat said:

FMD......this is the reason i love TV.......no where else can i find posters who can put a negative twist on a bloke who is just doing his thing.

 

you have to be professional trolls knocking one out in anticipation of replies, its a pity you don't put the same effort into some humorous posts.

So right. He is doing good - and has been doing it annually. True some recipients may not deserve the cash or might misuse it but for many it may mean a couple of days of better food, needed medicine or help with clothes for school kids. I hate trolls whose only limitless resource seems to be meaness of spitiy

[SiSePuede419]

"People need to earn the money....create incentives just don't hand it out"

 

Rich people don't have problems receiving money like poor people do.  Give a rich man money and it just makes them stronger, not weaker.

 

Funny, isn't it?

 

 It's almost like this "wisdom" is nothing more than class warfare, not actual "wisdom" or moral teachings of any value whatsoever. ?

[wvavin]

Photo taking and news are more important to him than these 2 million baht. Typical Thai style.

[rickudon]

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12 hours ago, cardinalblue said:

does free welfare work?

Well in the near future we will find out. It is being done now in a Scandinavian country. It has to come to provide the non working sheeple (future majority) with funds to buy all the great and wonderful things that the elite are producing. You just cannot have these wonderful things we cannot live without just dropping off the end of an assembly line with no buyers. Its would be like a blockage in the Gulf Stream. Of course the taxes of the elite would go up drastically to provide the free money and that would be the weak link in the chain as they just do not want to share. 

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Actually, no need for net taxes to go up. Give to everyone, but take back out of tax allowances and benefit payments. Instead of spending a fortune administering access rights to social welfare systems  just need a simple payments system that costs peanuts. Then everyone can work at what they want - basic needs taken care of, can actually do charitable work if they want. The reality is that full employment is a pipe dream in a computerised, robotic world, Many countries now have real unemployment rates of up to 50% for younger people, that's why we have so many economic migrants.

[saakura]

9 hours ago, performance said:

Thai media talking millions. It's 200 baht a envelope. Thais like publicity photos and I doubt the sum is anywhere close to 2 million. More false media.

Jealous, much?

[sioux2012]

Happy chinese new year to you sir....great gesture...and the negative posters on TV will always be negative. At least we know they are not 2 faced

[gemguy]

The government officials are more than likely frowning upon this sort of activity thinking it makes "them" lose face ..in some way.

The man could also walk the streets and find some truly needy people and cripples and out casts and the down and out and help them with money and or give them work tasks to do with pay and or jobs and employment to revive the peoples dignity and a variety of means and ways to help the poorest of the poor often found barely surviving on the streets.

There are plenty of such cases to keep the man busy with his charitable conduct.

A line up would easily include all too many who do not need the money nearly as much as so many others...but still,  the idea is correct ...spread the money around.

The other wealthy Thais, including members of the current Military Government should be doing the same...correct??  

Cheers

[Skeptic7]

Very generous. His money to do with as he pleases. Nice gesture even if by the next day it's as if it never happened. Can't save the world...but can brighten someone's day. 

[seancbk]

On 1/28/2017 at 1:31 PM, alation said:

On 1/28/2017 at 9:51 AM, KMartinHandyman said:

Nice gesture but b200 isn't rescuing anybody from poverty, just giving 10k passerby's a happy moment. Better to carefully vet 10 deserving, industrious poor families and change their lives and hope they follow his example if they don't squander the money.

The way I see it 10,000 people got 200 bhat better off maybe it isn't much but still they are all 200 bhat in front good work sir your money you can choose to do what you want to do with it. 

 

The red packets handed out at Chinese New Year are called 'Lai See'.   It is considered 'lucky money'   the amount is not important, the luck that the money imparts to the recipient and the giver is what matters to the Chinese (and Chinese Thais).

Usually most people receiving Lai See will not spend the money, but instead will put it somewhere safe (perhaps with their Chinese household temple, where they put offerings to the various Chinese gods).

 

[KMartinHandyman]

 
The red packets handed out at Chinese New Year are called 'Lai See'.   It is considered 'lucky money'   the amount is not important, the luck that the money imparts to the recipient and the giver is what matters to the Chinese (and Chinese Thais).

Usually most people receiving Lai See will not spend the money, but instead will put it somewhere safe (perhaps with their Chinese household temple, where they put offerings to the various Chinese gods).

 

The article stipulates he's giving money to the poor and helping those living hand to mouth,,so they can put the money on a shelf and wait for lucky?

[Travel2003]

Really want to help, without your latest gained PR? 

Use the money and build an orphanage or kitchen for poor people in a bigger town/city, without advertising it.