Corona Beer Founder Pays it Forward

[pagan]

The billionaire founder of Corona beer has reportedly made his entire home village millionaires in his will

Story on the New York Post at this link
http://nypost.com/2016/11/25/corona-founder-dies-makes-his-entire-village-millionaires/

 

[ashdigger]

I'll drink to that, but with a different beer.

 

[oldreddog]

Originally reported by The Sun.
I never had a problem with The Sun other than its too shiny for arse paper.

 

[mso489]

Take it with a twist of lime.

 

[ashdigger]

I'm not a beer snob, but any beer that needs fruit in it, wait, okay, I'm a beer snob.

 

[scrooge]

:rofl:

 

[cossackjack]

Great altruism.

The beer, however, Corona = donkey piss.

 

[perdurabo]

Altruism is disgusting, but you can't take it with you. He might have been better to leave the dollars to an educational fund, scholarships and so forth. Those villagers could turn up drug addicts and real life soap opera stars after a few years. Those millionaires will not lift the community out of poverty that's for sure, altruism has never done that,

 

[wyfbane]

I'm sure he meant well. I tend to agree that tossing a crapload of $$ at someone who has no clue how to use it can be as destructive as it can be constructive...
But you can't fault him for the logic. I mean he made the money selling really really bad beer that was really really well marketed. At any point after it took off, he could have made it less horrid.
I will toast his generosity with a Pacifico or a Modelo.

 

[aldecaker]

Hopefully the laws of unintended consequences don't kick in and turn this act of generosity into a debacle (which is what usually happens). Good luck to them.

 

[mackeson]

VERY nice gesture. Wish I could consider Corona beer, but very cool thing to do.

 

[mso489]

My beer nemesis is Coors. They brag about the mountain water used to brew it. The water doesn't taste so good to me, and the beer tastes ... well it doesn't. Obviously, large numbers of beer drinkers are tasting it differently than I am, or there is enough alcohol in it so they don't care. My favorite beer is one they don't make any more, a local Chicagoland brand, Meister Brau. Kind of hoppy, but not just hops, a really good working man's beer, sold in big bottles in the old days, later in cans which offed the flavor. Then, gone.

 

[hextor]

One of my favorite corona beer is, corona familiar, that is very nice, imagine getting millions of dollars from someone who is practically a stranger to you, i do hope the people use the money wisely.

 

[woodsroad]

This, for the most part, will end in tragedy. Nice thought, though.
Lottery Winners End Up Losers

 

[mso489]

Impossible to say. First, I'd say it would draw "vultures," con men after the folks' money. A few will be shrewd and know just how to funnel the money into property and means to income (farm machinery, machine tools, etc.). Many will lose their shirts. He should (or maybe he did) leave an executor to help people manage money who've never managed it before.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

In my relations with people of money, the only people I know who have a lot of money and are truly happy people are people who use their money to do some good in the world. All too often we think that money will solve so many problems, but all in all the thing we really, really need doesn't have a price tag.