Domenic Papa
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Domenic Papa commented on If you had $100 billion to give away, how would you spend it? on January 24, 2008, 2:33 PM
Start with simple things like ensuring all humans have access to clean fresh water. Start eradicating the simple deseases like measels. Help the poor countries with these issues. Cancer, climate change the rich coun tries will look after them its in their intrest to do so. The poor...lets help them first.
Domenic Papa commented on If you had $100 billion to give away, how would you spend it? on January 24, 2008, 9:33 AM
Start with simple things like ensuring all humans have access to clean fresh water. Start eradicating the simple deseases like measels. Help the poor countries with these issues. Cancer, climate change the rich coun tries will look after them its in their intrest to do so. The poor...lets help them first.
Domenic Papa commented on Why do you give back? on January 18, 2008, 2:34 PM
Richard has it right. I also see that giving it back can also be a way of taking on a challenge. In Richards case he started and grew a hugely successful business which is a great challenge. Now he can see the other challenges in the world and try to take them on. They wont make him rich but he will feel a lot better about himself. This isnt wrong. We all feel good when we do our small bit to help someone.However here is a thought.A few years ago a read how a group was looking for $45mil in sponsership to build a yaucht to race in the Americas Cup. In the same newspaper I read how the burns unit in a childrens hospital was loosing $1mil a year in government funding.Why doea a sportsman make millions to wear a certain brand of clothing yet a guy like fred Hallows (now dead) had to beg money from the community to save peoples eyesight?This is why giving it back is such a great thing because there is no money in it. A little press maybe but usually no more than "he is such a nice guy" and forgotten.
Domenic Papa commented on The Growing Income Gap on January 18, 2008, 2:15 PM
Just how much money do you need. But the thing that realy concerns me is the weath gap and celebrity. While the rich and famous live their pert lifestyle (well according to the press) and wear their designer cloths, jewellery, dring $400 bottles of champagne the rest of us are working longer and getting further into dept just trying to keep up. And this is in the west. The Majority world struggles to survive
Domenic Papa commented on What is Australian Culture? on March 10, 2008, 2:58 PM
I think being aussie is best summed up by the expression "she'll be right mate". It's our layed back, possitive attitude to life. It's also an expression that says we will get it done. "She'll be right" means that if we need to work hard, "bust a gut" so to speak, invent a new way, work as a team, whatever, we will do it because "she'll be right mate, no worries."We live in a beautiful (yet hard) country, peopled by hard working yet relaxed people who believe that enjoying life is what it is all about. People from everywhere come here, some saddly bring baggage from their old homeland. But in the long run "she'll be right, mate" and this country, and the lifestyle, will win.