SECOND THOUGHTS

Yesterday’s post was related to something that I have been think about for some time. My brother and I have different viewpoints regarding the matter. When a beggar asks me for money on the side on a traffic light intersection I very rarely give them money. On the other hand my brother often does give them money.

The two different sides that my brother and I take are similar to the following proverb; “Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day; teach him how to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.”

So my take on the matter is this; on average let’s say you are asked for money by four beggars a day and you give three of those beggars R2. In one month you will have spent R180 on beggars. If you put R180 into a yearly compound interest account for 20 years at 9% interest you will have R188002.75.

That amount of money will make a huge impact to a charity as opposed to supplying one tenth of a meal, a cigarette or a drink at the pub for a beggar.