Jack Ma to donate 500k test kits and 1M masks to the U.S.

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43 points·smacktoward··5 comments

With one simple gesture, he simultaneously helps a lot of people and outperforms the entire United States government.

And slaps a glove across Trumps face, which I suspect is the root cause for this gesture.

You've got to give Ma some credit though, this is a classy way to do it. USA/Trump receives foreign aid.

And/or maybe he just wants to help people. He donated to other countries too.

And/or the economy of China depends on the US being healthy (physically and financially) so Americans can keep buying the manufactured goods which China exports. As a customer, the US is too big to fail.

If you look at it objectively, America is a third-world country that no one wants to say it's so:

- around 2 million homeless

- extreme wealth inequality

- lower than average hospital beds per citizens

- no universal healthcare (Cuba's system is cheaper and better, unless you're rich)

- no meaningful mental healthcare system

- heavily indebted workers who aren't making livable wages or gaining full employment

- home ownership and savings unattainable for most

- unaccountable police

- highest incarceration rate per capita in the world except Seychelles

- racially-biased criminal justice system

- imprisoning journalists

- autocratic, corrupt, populist leader

- deeply-corrupt political establishment

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