2. Economy is the foundation of modern society. As one of social activities, doing good deeds is naturally inseparable from money.
3. In modern society, money is represented as currency or currency symbol, which is the medium to realize material exchange. Without money, it is a primitive society, a backward society that barters things and is self-sufficient. I can only grow vegetables, cotton and clothes by myself, and I can only walk. You should take a bite of salt in the Yellow Sea and feed a pig with a bite of meat. Even if you are too busy to survive, what can you do for charity? Don't ask anyone.
4. Money is an important part of personal wealth and social wealth, and it is an important indicator to measure personal ability and national economic level. If you have less money, you don't do good deeds because you are heartless, and if you don't have money, you don't do good deeds because you are incompetent.
It is hard to imagine what good a person can do without money and necessary means of subsistence. If you do it yourself and help others every day, then spending a lot of money and doing good to others is doing good. Doing good for one person means doing good for others, for a place, for a country, for a country, to save people from poverty, and to save human social progress means doing good. If you have money, you can do good deeds, and you can stand at the crossroads to help grandma.
6. Money is a powerful guarantee for doing good, and how much the economy pays is an important criterion for testing the level of doing good.
In 2007, Hurun Charity List was released, and 85-year-old Yu Pengnian generously donated 2 billion yuan. What is this concept, 20 inland counties, a year's financial net income?
On August 24th, Mr. Li Ka-shing, the richest Chinese in the world, announced that he would donate one third of his personal wealth to the Li Ka-shing Foundation for the development of charity. Prior to this, Mr. Li's charitable donations in the Mainland and Hong Kong had accumulated to HK$ 8 billion. According to Forbes' 2006 global rich list, Mr. Li's personal wealth is about HK$ 654.38+050 billion, and donating one third is equivalent to donating HK$ 50 billion.
Carnegie, the father of American charity, donated nearly 3,000 libraries before his death in 19 19. Together with other charitable donations, his total donation exceeded $330 million. As the famous saying goes, "It's shameful to die rich, but pitiful to die poor."
In 2003, two news related to the charity of the rich were widely circulated around the world. First, Bill Gates, the richest man in the world, decided to retire from the daily management of Microsoft in the next two years and prepare to devote his main energy to health and education charity; Second, Warren Buffett decided to donate $37 billion to charitable foundations, of which about $30 billion was donated to the Gates Foundation.
In 2006, Microsoft recently announced that since 1983, the value of cash, services and software products donated by Microsoft and its employees to global non-profit organizations through corporate donations and individual volunteer activities has exceeded $2.5 billion.
In 2006, in addition to the donation momentum of corporate charitable foundations, enterprises themselves continued to be hot in public welfare undertakings. On June 5th, the American Committee for Encouraging Business to Do Good (hereinafter referred to as the Committee) declared that the momentum of American companies engaging in charity was still strong in 2006, and the average charitable donations of American companies increased by 4.7% in 2006.