The generosity of billionaires

Posted on January 30, 2020 by

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos made headlines earlier this month with his donation of $690,000 to the Australian wildfire relief effort- a sum roughly estimated to equate to less than five minutes* of his earnings.

* For someone on £40,000 this equates to about £3.50.

Private Eye 24th January 2020 p16

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