Businessman and philanthropist Andrew Barnes has donated $22.7 million to research at Cambridge University after his partner, Charlotte Lockhart, was diagnosed…
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Oh good, another article about rich people giving tiny scraps of their wealth to make themselves feel good. Meanwhile the rest of us can't even get a dentist appointment. $22.7 million to Cambridge? What about our own bloody hospitals?
mate our health system's a joke regardless, at least research gets done
tbh I don't care where they put their money as long as they're paying their fair share of tax. Which most of them aren't.
facts
actually pretty cool that he's funding cancer research after his partner's diagnosis. yeah it's a lot of money but at least it's going to something useful not another yacht
lol the bar is so low. imagine giving millions away and ppl still calling you a legend for not exploiting workers *more*
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ffs can we stop glorifying the wealthy for doing the bare minimum? They'd be nothing without the workers.
philanthropy is just a tax dodge with extra steps. change my mind.
yeah nah get stuffed. some of us actually benefit from the research clown
cope harder lol. at least he did something instead of yapping on reddit
who cares where they donate? it's their money lol. at least someone's getting something out of it
Stag-do Jay at work said 'rich ppl only donate for the tax break' and honestly he's not wrong. Seen the same blokes claim charity on their IR3 year after year.
I'd rather see the money stay in NZ but it's his cash at the end of the day. No point crying about it.
omg can we talk about how this is literally from the guy who invented the 4-day workweek? guy literally changed labour laws and now he's curing cancer. absolute legend
fkn oath. bloke's done more for this country than any politician in 20 years
look I get the cynicism but my mum had breast cancer and the research money saved her life. so yeah thanks to anyone who funds that shit.
bloody good point. cancer doesn't discriminate based on tax receipts
