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- Add comment | Back to Home Written on 20-Nov-2008 by kylieThis article in the Sydney Morning Herald reports that billionaire retailer Gerry Harvey, the founder of the Australian department store Harvey Norman, doesn't believe in giving money to the homeless because they are not worthwhile. His comments are stated in a new book Master CEOs, by Matthew Kidman.
Harvey says he would give money to develop people who help the community, but for people whom he deems beyond development he says "you are helping a whole heap of no-hopers to survive for no good reason."
In my opinion, such an attitude is callous and sickening from a man who has so much. Harvey lacks the most basic human value of helping those in need. What do you think?
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written on 21-Nov-2008
MattTucker says:
What a Scrooge - Gerry Harvey is like a character out of a Charles Dickens novel! It's one thing to have these views, which I think is bad enough, but another to be bold enough to air these views in a book!
Successful people sometimes don't appreciate that luck is part of their success. Many homeless people are homeless because of terrible bad luck. Gerry Harvey is one of the lucky ones.
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