Why we need people like this

Every so often there comes someone who advocates for all and not the few.

These people become the voices and icons of various decades.

John F Kennedy was one, William Wallace back in the 13^th century was, but more recently and in this country we have Dick Smith.

An entrepreneur branching into nearly every part of our lives, bought a hard-drive lately? You probably got it from Dick Smith electronics, and if you went to the supermarkets you might have brought something from his food range, heck he even makes doco’s these days.

Not that this is to discredit the man.

Today Smith was a part of a story in the “National Times” part of Fairfax newspapers across Australia where he says that he is “absolutely disgusted that most of the wealthy are so utterly selfish”.

Good on him.

Smith, a confessed philanthropist himself says it is not morally just, the division between rich and poor, and those in the class of wealth do not help those below themselves.

Smith has a point, claiming that society has changed, becoming individualistic.

He claims it should be an obligation for money to be given to charity and why not?

Why can’t there be more people like Dick Smith? Then again, we wouldn’t realise how out of the box this man truly is, and that’s a good thing.