re: "Vaccine alone no cure for Covid's ills" (BP, Editorial, July 11, 2021)
Dear editor,
No, dear Bangkok Post editor, I think a more honest perspective is that it is not particularly "commendable that Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and his cabinet are willing to donate their salaries for the next three months to Covid-19 sufferers." That cheap publicity stunt is as cheap as the miserliness, the meanness, of their efforts to justly distribute the wealth of the Thai nation among the Thai people who create it when compared with the extravagantly luxurious "sufficiency economics" lifestyles (Soi Thonglor after dinner? Or front seats at he boxing stadium?) of those same very rich people (a new diamond encrusted watch? – merely borrowed of course; or perhaps a new Ferrari to clean up any inconvenient policemen in the path?).
Please do some investigative journalism and report the percentages of their wealth that these very rich Thais in Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha's cabinet of his collection of the best of the best have donated to help others. How do those numbers compare with the 30% standard set to date by such genuinely philanthropic benefactors as Mackenzie Scott, Bill Gates and so on? Those percentages, and the corresponding percentages philanthropically donated by the richest of the Thai elite, are what will tell us more truly how benevolent, righteous, compassionate, and generally decent Thailand's super-rich truly are.
Felix Qui
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The above letter to the editor is the text as submitted by Felix Qui to the Bangkok Post.
The text as edited was published in PostBag on July 12, 2021, under the title "Publicity stunt is rich" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/2147143/deaf-to-wake-up-call
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