Was the showboating all in good fun or an insult to the every man (and woman)?
Russian Mark Zuckerberg Flies Money Paper Airplanes to Peons on the Street
If
you’ve never been rich, it might seem hard to understand the ways and
the habits of the insanely, ridiculously wealthy. Perhaps, if you were
worth $260 million dollars like Pavel Durov, you too might get some kind
of sporting enjoyment from launching paper planes made of money out of your window into the streets below.
I mean, hey—why not? There’s plenty more where that came from and
plenty more after that and after that and… you get the point.
So that’s how the mastermind behind In Contact, the Russian remix of
Facebook and the country’s largest social networking site, spent
yesterday afternoon: flying paper planes made of crisp rubles into the streets below.
When
pedestrians got wind that Durov was makin’ it rain, the crowd got
bigger and bigger. Not that that should come as any big surprise. So
neither should this—eventually folks started getting a little pushy
shovy and testy turvy with their cash scavenging, which apparently
disappointed the megarich mogul.
He took to his Twitter page to say "We had to stop soon, though, as people turned into animals."
Mmm hmm. Well, herein lies the problem, fella. Some people are
naturally greedy. But some people are desperate. Some people are really
struggling. Some people are looking for financial blessings to fall from
the sky like manna from heaven—more in the spiritual sense, I’m sure,
but even better if it actually does happen in the physical. So when you
mesh the characteristics of human nature with an element of neediness
and couch that with the fact that it is, after all, free money falling
from above, folks’ behavior is probably going to be a little less than ladylike and gentlemanly.
Needless to say, homeboy has given critics a reason to chastise him. I
haven’t read any myself so far, but I can kind of guess that the
frivolousness might be frowned upon along with the whole
causing-anarchy-in-the-streets thing. I’d have to agree with anyone
waging those complaints. Pour some money into a foundation or a
donor-advised fund or adopt an orphanage or something. But if you’re
just tossing money out of the window to show how much you have to throw
away with abandon, you’re making a mockery of the people scrambling
underneath.
Besides, there’s no forever and ever in terms of business. Remember MySpace?
Was the showboating all in good fun or an insult to the every man (and woman)?
This statement is exactly how I feel about this incident
"Pour some money into a foundation or a donor-advised fund or adopt an orphanage or something. But if you’re just tossing money out of the window to show how much you have to throw away with abandon, you’re making a mockery of the people scrambling underneath."
Quoting janessa27:
This statement is exactly how I feel about this incident
"Pour some money into a foundation or a donor-advised fund or adopt an orphanage or something. But if you’re just tossing money out of the window to show how much you have to throw away with abandon, you’re making a mockery of the people scrambling underneath."
I agree.He was just doing it to amuse himself
NEED IDEAS
- Cafe Amber
on Jun. 4, 2012 at 7:55 AM