How to be a philanthropist: An 11-step guide

Harry Shannon

  1. Pay your workers starvation wages, preferably in low income countries
  2. Ignore labour laws and health and safety hazards
  3. Make obscene amounts of money
  4. Befriend powerful politicians and donate to their parties
  5. Continually deny any wrongdoing or dreadful labour practices
  6. Transfer your money to tax havens
  7. Give a tiny fraction of the taxes saved to a worthy cause
  8. Have your donation used for partial cost, say 10%, of a prominent new building
  9. ‘Reluctantly’ allow the building to be named after you
  10. Get a tax write-off for your donation
  11. Repeat steps 1 to 6

To be continued in a future post