Billionaire Jack Ma Donates $14 Million to Fight Coronavirus — Gizmodo Rips Him For Not Donating Enough

Jack Ma, the co-founder of Alibaba Group, is China’s richest man, worth about around $40 billion.  This week, he donated $14 million to help develop a vaccine for the deadly coronavirus currently crossing China.

Donated.  As in, voluntarily.  $14 million of his own money.

That could go a long way in helping to eradicate the coronavirus.

But for Matt Novak of Gizmodo – and many of the site’s Twitter followers – $14 million simply isn’t enough.

According to the article, Jack Ma is a selfish person whose company treats its employees poorly, whose $14 million donation is only a drop in a bucket compared to his total net worth, and who only donated because the spread of the coronavirus will hurt his business.  Novak claims Jack Ma’s donation relative to his net worth is the equivalent of the average American family chipping in $33.

Basically, Matt Novak spends 400 words tearing down a guy who just donated more money in a single day than most of us will make in our entire lifetimes.

He closes the article with this gem:

It’s good when extremely wealthy people give their money to worthy causes, but you know what’s great?  Taking that obscene wealth through taxes and spending it to make the world a healthier place for everyone.

No, that is objectively not great.  Private enterprise and capitalism have done more to create a richer, healthier world for everyone than any government ever has.

The worst part?  A lot of people on Twitter agree with Novak.

Got that?  Philanthropy isn’t good, it’s a way for the rich to keep the little people down.  Unlike high taxes, which will apparently lead us into the often mentioned but heretofore unseen socialist utopia.

A few people tried to point out that smearing a dude for voluntarily donating a lot of money is a little messed up.  Of course, that didn’t go over well with the entitled masses.

First of all, Jack Ma didn’t donate “basically nothing.”  He donated $14 MILLION.  Even if that isn’t lot to him, that is A LOT of money overall.  Second, I’d like to see Zach back up his claim that more taxes would mean “perfect” funding for everything – because I think it would mean even more bloated government spending and overreach.

I wonder how many of these idiots have donated their $33.