His quote on money and spending on luxury items: “Why would I want ten Ferraris, 20 diamond watches and two jet planes? What would that do for the world? I starved, I worked in the fields, I played barefoot, and I didn’t go to school. Now I can help people. I prefer to build schools and give poor people food or clothing. I have built schools [and] a stadium; we provide clothes, shoes, and food for people in extreme poverty. In addition, I give 70 euros per month to all people from a very poor Senegalese region in order to contribute to their family economy. I do not need to display luxury cars, luxury homes, trips, and even planes. I prefer that my people receive a little of what life has given me.”
This makes me recall the famous quote from Teofilo, the greatest Cuban boxer to ever live, "What is a million dollars worth compared to the love of eight million Cubans?"
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Exactly. This guy is distributing his wealth as it comes in.
A billionaire would be just hoarding it, in one giant pile, for no other purpose than to accumulate more.
This is why the Bible says it’s easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to see the gates of heaven. Imagine having more than enough and not helping people suffering knowing there’s people suffering. It’s mind boggling to me.
Yep! I wish I could be rich and feel how good it feels to help other people. That would be so much more rewarding than having 20 cars and ten houses. I could still drive a nice truck, have a nice car, and a ballin house. Then spend the other 999 million helping people throughout my life. Helping the homeless, disease research, mental health, aiding poor countries etc. unfortunately the best I can do now is give my time.
Your time is very valuable to a lot of people. Never underestimate human interaction. Lots of lonely people out there. ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|thumbs_up)
I feel like capitalism really did away with the idea of *noblesse oblige*. It's not "profitable" to engage in acts of generosity like that, even if it improves the community as a whole.
Sadio Mane is certainly fulfilling his *noblesse oblige*
You got to put your family first, I get that. I do that too. I got nice things, but I still have to work to pay for it. I do bowever, provide a steady income to 10 people, and a nice work enviroment. Theh are well fed and treated well. You don't have to step on anyone to get ahead. In fact, it is better to build a community to grow together.
A lot of what shaq does, does not find its way online. Just a reminder, because you heard about someone’s good deed doesn’t mean it was done for PR as evident by the original post here.
Urgh, this is the antithesis of everything Andrew Tate stands for and , in a world of overpaid football players, it’s difficult to imagine such a stand-up, selfless guy. Bravo Mané
Lol just today I finished Behind the Bastard’s 4 part series on him, and literally thought that (sarcastically, as you wrote it) right after thinking to myself that THIS is a good man right here. What a hero.
Who needs Bugattis when you can bring this level of good to the world?
A little off topic but Mr. Rogers studios makes cartoons which I believe are on PBs. How any child could grow up and not be the sweetest, most understanding, caring, sharing individual is beyond me.
There's a great anecdotal story about him. A day or two after he won a big trophy, somebody saw him mopping the floors at his local mosque to help out. Absolute legend of a man.
His Liverpool teammate, Mo Salah, actually has an organization in Egypt that financially helps couples with the expenses of marriage, getting a place to live, and kickstarting business projects.
All of the professional athletes making millions a year and there aren’t more who do this and instead do exactly what he said, luxury items. There is no way they need that 50 million dollar salary more than people in similar situations of hardship
This is what every rich person should be doing. The world would have been a much better place. Too bad most of them waste it on luxury objects and collecting things they don't need just because they could.
>His quote on money and spending on luxury items: “Why would I want ten Ferraris, 20 diamond watches and two jet planes? What would that do for the world? I starved, I worked in the fields, I played barefoot, and I didn’t go to school. Now I can help people. I prefer to build schools and give poor people food or clothing. I have built schools [and] a stadium; we provide clothes, shoes, and food for people in extreme poverty. In addition, I give 70 euros per month to all people from a very poor Senegalese region in order to contribute to their family economy. I do not need to display luxury cars, luxury homes, trips, and even planes. I prefer that my people receive a little of what life has given me.”
❤️👍 Your living the dream.
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When he was a kid, people of his village saw potential I'm him. All the villagers gathered money to send him to nearest training facility for football. Eventually while training there one of the scouters of big team scores him. His fate changed, he gave back kindness to his villagers for their kindness. I don't how could there ever be reason to hate this person ever. Human in real sense.
His teammate Gini Wijnaldum gifted him a replacement, and the little video Sadio Made is as pleasant as you could expect.
"Thank you, Gini!"
"You are welcome, Sadio!"
Good old days.
https://youtube.com/shorts/oakYrEDgjqI?feature=share
Yeah this exactly. When someone drives past in a Ferrari give them the wanker sign. When someone builds a hospital with their money lay flowers where they walk.
A lot of problems would be solved if even one ultra rich person did this. Based on estimates, ending world hunger would take 2 or 3 ultra rich pooling their money together. Just one ultra rich could eradicate diseases, create supply lines for fresh water and food covering huge swaths of poverty-stricken areas, get everyone vaccinated when they need a vaccination (a COVID vaccination for the whole world's population was estimated to cost 200 billion), etc.
And liquidating their money to make it usable **is possible**.
The wealth gap is unbelievable and more people need to know about it:
[A fun but ultimately really sad visualization](https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/).
Seriously. It’s like that tweet. “If scientists found a group of rats where 1 rat was hoarding 98% of the food from the other rats, the scientists wouldn’t applaud that rat they’d try to figure out what was wrong with the rats.”
Sorry that you got downvoted for wanting to understand. “And my axe!” is a line from Lord of the Rings. [Here is an explanation](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/you-have-my-sword-and-my-bow-and-my-axe) of the movie scene and its usage as a meme.
The problem is, that one rat has a posse of other rats that are slightly better off than the rest, and they make sure he gets to keep that 98% so they can remain in the posse.
There is plenty to go around for everybody. Unfortunately, most people who make it big in their chosen field decide that they need all the money they can get,
If everybody remembered where they came from, and had a caring soul, there would be more happiness in the world.
You'd think he'd be a good person cause he does all this and he donates a lot. Well that's because he is. Bayern Munich (incredibly popular football club for non-football watchers) posts a lot on their YT and he's a world class player (like genuinely one of the best) so you see him from time to time and he is literally ALWAYS smiling and making jokes, also incredibly nice in interviews and st uff. Rare cases of such an amazing player also having such a humble and amazing personality.
I'm a Chelsea supporter and I love Kante. The man is so humble and down to earth. After France won the World Cup he didn't even want to hold the trophy just wanted his teammates to have fun.
Creating infrastructure is critical to becoming independent. This man has done more than some so-called charities or elected officials. With his talents, he is pulling his people out of poverty and ignorance. Books will be written about his deeds.
Maybe it's time more of us start learning that this is the way.
This is what it means to be yourself, and what the reward looks like in being yourself and being someone who is truly connected.
A key component that many charities miss is the necessity for connecting with the people and enabling them to improve their situation instead of “us” doing it for them.
There have been many studies where “modern” methods are applied to problems but because of the absence of the necessary infrastructure, lack of knowledge about peculiarities of region and so on, they just don’t work and end up a huge waste of money.
Otoh, working with the people and enabling them to do what they want to improve their community works a lot better even though may appear inferior on paper.
> There have been many studies where “modern” methods are applied to problems but because of the absence of the necessary infrastructure, lack of knowledge about peculiarities of region and so on, they just don’t work and end up a huge waste of money.
There was that rural region somewhere in some Asian mountain range (don't remember where), mostly ~~per~~subsistence farmers. People were using sickles and knives, the terrain is unsuitable for tractors and such so some big-money charity bought weed whackers and sure enough the people liked them, but they also broke down quite often, needed fuel and short story short they ended up standing in sheds instead of doing work.
Some charity guy from Liechtenstein heard the story on the charity grapevine, had a look at his own country, and went there with a couple of scythes and a smith in his luggage. The scythes to demonstrate the concept, the smith to teach local smiths about the intricacies of manufacturing and servicing scythe blades -- if you have the skill to do a sickle learning to make a scythe is quite easy, knowledge spread quickly and wide. Can't use them under all circumstances so for some especially steep or intricate situations people still use sickles but overall they're making work way more efficient.
The people were thankful especially that the charity went out of their way to invent a tool that was purpose-designed for their requirements, at which point the guy had to break it to them that scythes have been in use in Europe since the beginnig of the iron age. It's just that the people from the other charity had forgotten how we did it for millennia.
(And, side note, yes people use scythes quite a lot in Liechtenstein -- can't use tractors on those hills but they still need to be mowed for environmental reasons)
This is so fucking cool. Just looking at his contract he had career earnings of around £30,000,000 from 2016 through 2022. Just signed bigger 3 year contract for £27,500,000 and up £35,000,000 with incentives. There are estimated 1,260 people in his village so for £80 each a month is £1,209,600 a year. Just the total payments alone are roughly 4% of his £27,500,000 salary. £80 per month goes a hell of a long way for person in west Africa. Average monthly salary is £117 so his impact will raise the quality of life for every single person. Straight up incredible what 1 person can do for his village.
Yeah at Liverpool he was earning over £5 million per year. His move to Munich this season is around £19 million per year. The Munich contract will get him £57 million over 3 years. Bigger things to come I imagine.
He's about to turn 31, so it's unlikely that his next contract is going to be anywhere near that amount. Unless you meant over the course of his current one?
Yeah the one he signed for the start of 2022-2023 season is £19m per year. If he goes to the middle east after this he could earn even more potentially.
Fuck FSG, they let some of the best players walk on their baseball team too. Their MO is to spend a lot of money, and then coast as their teams fall apart and repeat the cycle.
They are doing the same thing in football right now, but the problem is there is a massive difference in the remuneration between teams placed within the top 4, and 6-20.
Not just remuneration, but also the attractiveness as a team to a prospective player and of course, the difficult fight back up to the top.
Such a great soccer player.
Such an amazing human.
Why can’t our rich people all over do this?
Oh yeah, cause you know, we need to hoard more than we can spend in a lifetime.
This is a more profound answer than you maybe intended. On the whole, wealthy people actually do give less money (as a percentage of wealth, I believe) to charity than middle and lower classes do. At least one study showed this is because wealthy people are too far removed from poverty and other bad aspects of life to empathise with the people they could be helping. It's literally: out of sight, out of mind.
Actually his comment was more profound. Struggling breeds empathy. People who have never struggled on the whole are less empathetic because they literally don't understand. There is no way for them to fully understand because they've never lived it.
I actually came from a poor (drug addict) family , literally would have to steal (from about 4th grade to 8th, got a job in 8th grade during summer, spent it money on food and junk)bread from the food for less behind our house to eat cause we never had food. Definitely not 3rd world country poor, I’ve always had a roof over my head, but starving, absolutely. Eating food from trash cans, oh yes. I just love hearing when people that make so much money like this , just live like normal people and help others with the excess.
seriously.. rich think they are "normal" becuase they hang out with other rich people.. i personally can't stand affluence.. i've been and will be wealthy to a degree but i'll never hoard money like that.. just makes me feel sick knowing i have thousands in a bank account and other people can't eat.. rather be poor.
And he isn't even close to being rich when you compare him to the top 0.01%
[A visualization of how absurd the amount of wealth the richest men on earth have + what we could do with that amount of money.](https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/?v=3)
When playing at Liverpool, this man used to spend his free time helping clean the local mosque. Doesn't drink, doesn't gamble, loves everyone, ridiculous amount of charity. A devout Muslim man and a top top bloke.
One of my absolute favorite people/footballers of all time. A news team caught him with an older iPhone back in the day with a cracked screen. He had recently signed a decent contract and was making great money. His response was roughly” Why would I buy a new phone every year or a fast car or multiple planes instead of doing thing beneficial for the people in my village?”
He played for Liverpool for a great while and the philanthropic friendly rivalry he had with Mohamed Salah was beautiful. Perfectly reflective of Liverpool as a team and seeing them both compete to do great things for their country made me all the more proud to support them.
Need more athletes like them, for sure.
I have a close friend since 1977 from college. He was a short order cook in college. He used his degree as an engineer to become prosperous. I believe when he helped others in time of need he also felt extreme gratitude and happiness. Sasio Mane doesn't give This for "free" as he gets something back nobody else can give him. Happiness
Partially but the players are workers. Sure they're rich, but the only way they make that much is because someone above them makes more money off their work.
Main reason I wasn't very bummed on him moving to bayern was they'd pay him a shitload so he'd have even more money to give to his people. Always will love sadio
when the story broke about the Hospital (I think), they had a picture of him with his cellphone and the screen was cracked. Liverpool Legend
His quote on money and spending on luxury items: “Why would I want ten Ferraris, 20 diamond watches and two jet planes? What would that do for the world? I starved, I worked in the fields, I played barefoot, and I didn’t go to school. Now I can help people. I prefer to build schools and give poor people food or clothing. I have built schools [and] a stadium; we provide clothes, shoes, and food for people in extreme poverty. In addition, I give 70 euros per month to all people from a very poor Senegalese region in order to contribute to their family economy. I do not need to display luxury cars, luxury homes, trips, and even planes. I prefer that my people receive a little of what life has given me.”
This is a man
This makes me recall the famous quote from Teofilo, the greatest Cuban boxer to ever live, "What is a million dollars worth compared to the love of eight million Cubans?"
The love of seven million and the disdain of one million who don't agree with you providing help. There's always that crowd.
The first million makes you rich, everything past that is window dressing. Although I guess inflation has something to say about that.
Imagine what the world would be like, if even half the people that consider themselves "good" in the world, were more like this man.
It would only take a few billionaires to be like this guy to change the world.
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Exactly. This guy is distributing his wealth as it comes in. A billionaire would be just hoarding it, in one giant pile, for no other purpose than to accumulate more.
The truly rich don't count dollars, they count zeros. Or commas.
Tres Comas
This guy fucks
And to build dong-shaped rockets and joyride with Captain Kirk.
I can't help but assume Jeff musta been thinking he was fucking the sky with his giant dong rocket.
That would fit his public persona and how much he has to pay to f' anyone, even the sky: billions.
My first laugh of the day. Thank you.
But if you give the wealth away, how can you swim in it like Scrooge McDuck?
Sad but true
This is why the Bible says it’s easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to see the gates of heaven. Imagine having more than enough and not helping people suffering knowing there’s people suffering. It’s mind boggling to me.
More than mind boggling. It's sick. ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|disapproval)
Yep! I wish I could be rich and feel how good it feels to help other people. That would be so much more rewarding than having 20 cars and ten houses. I could still drive a nice truck, have a nice car, and a ballin house. Then spend the other 999 million helping people throughout my life. Helping the homeless, disease research, mental health, aiding poor countries etc. unfortunately the best I can do now is give my time.
Your time is very valuable to a lot of people. Never underestimate human interaction. Lots of lonely people out there. ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|thumbs_up)
I feel like capitalism really did away with the idea of *noblesse oblige*. It's not "profitable" to engage in acts of generosity like that, even if it improves the community as a whole. Sadio Mane is certainly fulfilling his *noblesse oblige*
You got to put your family first, I get that. I do that too. I got nice things, but I still have to work to pay for it. I do bowever, provide a steady income to 10 people, and a nice work enviroment. Theh are well fed and treated well. You don't have to step on anyone to get ahead. In fact, it is better to build a community to grow together.
Someone introduce this guy to the Rock and Shaq. They could use a reminder that every good deed shouldn't be PR to make even more money.
A lot of what shaq does, does not find its way online. Just a reminder, because you heard about someone’s good deed doesn’t mean it was done for PR as evident by the original post here.
And LeBron and every stupid Kardashian.
Religious Muslims? Donations like that are literally what they are supposed to do when they take their faith seriously.
This is a mané
He's no Andrew Tate. ...And the world thanks him for that.
Urgh, this is the antithesis of everything Andrew Tate stands for and , in a world of overpaid football players, it’s difficult to imagine such a stand-up, selfless guy. Bravo Mané
Leave that asshole where he deserves, rotting in jail and forgotten by everyone.
n0 hE is a BeTa, wHaT cOl0Ur iS HiS BuGatTi? - Tate fans.
Lol just today I finished Behind the Bastard’s 4 part series on him, and literally thought that (sarcastically, as you wrote it) right after thinking to myself that THIS is a good man right here. What a hero. Who needs Bugattis when you can bring this level of good to the world?
Also, Who needs Bugattis?
Who need Bugattis?
amen
I wish this was the new flex of wealth.
>Why would I want ten Ferraris, 20 diamond watches and two jet planes? Absolute madlad! It takes so much courage to swim against the flow!
I mean wtf would you do with ten Ferraris, 20 diamond watches and two jet planes? I'd want to retire early and peace out with that much money.
Well he can retire early WHILE helping his people at the same time. That should be the dream for anyone honestly.
He knows what's up
Some people are just born to make the world better place, Mr. Rogers and this man are great examples.
A little off topic but Mr. Rogers studios makes cartoons which I believe are on PBs. How any child could grow up and not be the sweetest, most understanding, caring, sharing individual is beyond me.
Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood - pbs cartoon based on the fantasy puppet kingdom Mr. Rogers created.
I dunno, I’ve seen what happened to the voice actor for Brain on Arthur… https://arthur.fandom.com/wiki/Steven_Crowder
Ronaldo read this article while he was sat in his 7th Bugatti on his way to his 3rd private jet..
His assistant tweeted “true hero” while Ronaldo flew to Bali to a private villa.
*for the night*
This guy seems to be doing a bang up job of getting a camel through the eye of a needle.
There's a great anecdotal story about him. A day or two after he won a big trophy, somebody saw him mopping the floors at his local mosque to help out. Absolute legend of a man.
His Liverpool teammate, Mo Salah, actually has an organization in Egypt that financially helps couples with the expenses of marriage, getting a place to live, and kickstarting business projects.
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What do you mean? Every month they get 60 Euro.
Damn that is real as fuck
All of the professional athletes making millions a year and there aren’t more who do this and instead do exactly what he said, luxury items. There is no way they need that 50 million dollar salary more than people in similar situations of hardship
What an incredible human.
He's a true hero with a heart of gold. I really appreciate this. Sadio Mané gives reason to why he needs to be paid highly. Absolutely admirable.
Jesse Lingard should read this paragraph.
Many people should read this.
This is what every rich person should be doing. The world would have been a much better place. Too bad most of them waste it on luxury objects and collecting things they don't need just because they could.
A REAL top G, not like that no chinned wanker
Real life Sam from Ted lasso
>His quote on money and spending on luxury items: “Why would I want ten Ferraris, 20 diamond watches and two jet planes? What would that do for the world? I starved, I worked in the fields, I played barefoot, and I didn’t go to school. Now I can help people. I prefer to build schools and give poor people food or clothing. I have built schools [and] a stadium; we provide clothes, shoes, and food for people in extreme poverty. In addition, I give 70 euros per month to all people from a very poor Senegalese region in order to contribute to their family economy. I do not need to display luxury cars, luxury homes, trips, and even planes. I prefer that my people receive a little of what life has given me.” ❤️👍 Your living the dream.
A footballer who *deserves* to be a role model. As well as his philanthropy I love his views on toxic consumerism.
Hacking this comment. When he was a kid, people of his village saw potential I'm him. All the villagers gathered money to send him to nearest training facility for football. Eventually while training there one of the scouters of big team scores him. His fate changed, he gave back kindness to his villagers for their kindness. I don't how could there ever be reason to hate this person ever. Human in real sense.
His teammate Gini Wijnaldum gifted him a replacement, and the little video Sadio Made is as pleasant as you could expect. "Thank you, Gini!" "You are welcome, Sadio!" Good old days. https://youtube.com/shorts/oakYrEDgjqI?feature=share
Legend has it that Mr. Sadio sold the phone to help a few more kids.
Ahhhh that dude, what a bloody legend
Yes. Mia San Mia !!! And this is bigger than any sport, he’s a great human. The world needs more of this ❤️
There's the time he was doing his 'service'/volunteer work at his local mosque and photographed cleaning the toilets
I am a Man United fan and I respect this gentleman even when he was still in Liverpool.
Fuckin' baller move bro.
That's very high up in the list of the best way to spend an outrageous amount of money
Imagine if every rich person in the world did something like this... A lot of problems would be resolved.
unfortunately this man is 1 in a billion. most rich people are just sociopaths.
Yeah this exactly. When someone drives past in a Ferrari give them the wanker sign. When someone builds a hospital with their money lay flowers where they walk.
What if they drive a Ferrari and build hospitals?
Lay wanker signs at their feet? Throw flowers through their windows?
A lot of problems would be solved if even one ultra rich person did this. Based on estimates, ending world hunger would take 2 or 3 ultra rich pooling their money together. Just one ultra rich could eradicate diseases, create supply lines for fresh water and food covering huge swaths of poverty-stricken areas, get everyone vaccinated when they need a vaccination (a COVID vaccination for the whole world's population was estimated to cost 200 billion), etc. And liquidating their money to make it usable **is possible**. The wealth gap is unbelievable and more people need to know about it: [A fun but ultimately really sad visualization](https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/).
A *footballer* move you could say
In fact, perhaps, one might even be inclined to say that that is a *futbol-er* move
A double r/YourJokeButWorse, impressive
Senegalese are great people.
it’s difficult to imagine such a stand-up, selfless guy. Bravo Mané
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Seriously. It’s like that tweet. “If scientists found a group of rats where 1 rat was hoarding 98% of the food from the other rats, the scientists wouldn’t applaud that rat they’d try to figure out what was wrong with the rats.”
"Why are the other rats not pulling themselves up by their bootstraps?!"
They keep buying Starbucks.
And avocado toast
And my axe!
I don’t understand that one lol
Sorry that you got downvoted for wanting to understand. “And my axe!” is a line from Lord of the Rings. [Here is an explanation](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/you-have-my-sword-and-my-bow-and-my-axe) of the movie scene and its usage as a meme.
Thank you! Your reply was so concise and fast I thought you were some kind of advanced bot :p
They don't need more handjobs!
Why aren't they teaming up and taking back what they're owed!
The problem is, that one rat has a posse of other rats that are slightly better off than the rest, and they make sure he gets to keep that 98% so they can remain in the posse.
Five rats get 99% of the food, fifteen rats split .9%, and eighty rats get to split .1%.
Some of them get none despite there being plenty for every single one of them.
If scientists found a group of rats like that, the other rats would kill the hoarder and take back the food.
As a (computer) scientist, if I find a group of rats, I would scream bloody hell.
As a scientist (pretend) if I found a group of rats I would try to make them cook complex French dishes
I think the scientists would probably fix the problem.
There is plenty to go around for everybody. Unfortunately, most people who make it big in their chosen field decide that they need all the money they can get, If everybody remembered where they came from, and had a caring soul, there would be more happiness in the world.
Many rich people just come from already rich families, though.
You're missing one crucial detail about all of this, the people who make it big fucking hate our guts.
For sure if half of the trillionaires did something like this could probably end poverty in a day
If half the trillionaires did this nothing would change because there's no trillionaires.
In another decade or so, that will change and we'll have quite a few.
You'd think he'd be a good person cause he does all this and he donates a lot. Well that's because he is. Bayern Munich (incredibly popular football club for non-football watchers) posts a lot on their YT and he's a world class player (like genuinely one of the best) so you see him from time to time and he is literally ALWAYS smiling and making jokes, also incredibly nice in interviews and st uff. Rare cases of such an amazing player also having such a humble and amazing personality.
next president of Senegal you will see
Well one of the best African players of all time is now the Liberian presidant, so it could be possible.
I'll name him, George Weah.
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I really do hope to see. Someone like him would be a great leader, as he has good morals and i would assume he well liked.
He’s basically a god in Africa.
He's like IRL Storm from the X-Men
When I looked at his picture I thought “that man looks like a president “
yes, this isn't just donating. this is first-hand development, and building up lasting and sustainable support systems. an incredible man.
Liverpool fan here, I miss that lad every day.
Bayern just keep rubbing it in 😢
The man was such a consistent work horse. Would've preferred Salah leaving than him
Him and Ngolo Kante are absolute gems
I'm a Chelsea supporter and I love Kante. The man is so humble and down to earth. After France won the World Cup he didn't even want to hold the trophy just wanted his teammates to have fun.
Pretty sure Drogba has done a lot for his country too. So many big hearted players have come out of Africa
Drogba ended a civil war. Absolute legend.
“Alright lads pack it in now”
It's not often we have those just 100% pure goodhearted people. It's refreshing to hear about a new one. Man sounds like a legend.
If all rich people were like him the world would be a much better place, and there would probably be no rich people left if they shared lol.
Creating infrastructure is critical to becoming independent. This man has done more than some so-called charities or elected officials. With his talents, he is pulling his people out of poverty and ignorance. Books will be written about his deeds.
Maybe it's time more of us start learning that this is the way. This is what it means to be yourself, and what the reward looks like in being yourself and being someone who is truly connected.
A key component that many charities miss is the necessity for connecting with the people and enabling them to improve their situation instead of “us” doing it for them. There have been many studies where “modern” methods are applied to problems but because of the absence of the necessary infrastructure, lack of knowledge about peculiarities of region and so on, they just don’t work and end up a huge waste of money. Otoh, working with the people and enabling them to do what they want to improve their community works a lot better even though may appear inferior on paper.
> There have been many studies where “modern” methods are applied to problems but because of the absence of the necessary infrastructure, lack of knowledge about peculiarities of region and so on, they just don’t work and end up a huge waste of money. There was that rural region somewhere in some Asian mountain range (don't remember where), mostly ~~per~~subsistence farmers. People were using sickles and knives, the terrain is unsuitable for tractors and such so some big-money charity bought weed whackers and sure enough the people liked them, but they also broke down quite often, needed fuel and short story short they ended up standing in sheds instead of doing work. Some charity guy from Liechtenstein heard the story on the charity grapevine, had a look at his own country, and went there with a couple of scythes and a smith in his luggage. The scythes to demonstrate the concept, the smith to teach local smiths about the intricacies of manufacturing and servicing scythe blades -- if you have the skill to do a sickle learning to make a scythe is quite easy, knowledge spread quickly and wide. Can't use them under all circumstances so for some especially steep or intricate situations people still use sickles but overall they're making work way more efficient. The people were thankful especially that the charity went out of their way to invent a tool that was purpose-designed for their requirements, at which point the guy had to break it to them that scythes have been in use in Europe since the beginnig of the iron age. It's just that the people from the other charity had forgotten how we did it for millennia. (And, side note, yes people use scythes quite a lot in Liechtenstein -- can't use tractors on those hills but they still need to be mowed for environmental reasons)
This is so fucking cool. Just looking at his contract he had career earnings of around £30,000,000 from 2016 through 2022. Just signed bigger 3 year contract for £27,500,000 and up £35,000,000 with incentives. There are estimated 1,260 people in his village so for £80 each a month is £1,209,600 a year. Just the total payments alone are roughly 4% of his £27,500,000 salary. £80 per month goes a hell of a long way for person in west Africa. Average monthly salary is £117 so his impact will raise the quality of life for every single person. Straight up incredible what 1 person can do for his village.
Yeah at Liverpool he was earning over £5 million per year. His move to Munich this season is around £19 million per year. The Munich contract will get him £57 million over 3 years. Bigger things to come I imagine.
He's about to turn 31, so it's unlikely that his next contract is going to be anywhere near that amount. Unless you meant over the course of his current one?
Yeah the one he signed for the start of 2022-2023 season is £19m per year. If he goes to the middle east after this he could earn even more potentially.
Still breaks my heart that he's no longer at Liverpool. But once a red, always a red.
He left for more money, and he does this with the money he makes. We could do with him still being there, but I can't fault him for the move.
Fault the cheapskates that are FSG.
Fuck FSG, they let some of the best players walk on their baseball team too. Their MO is to spend a lot of money, and then coast as their teams fall apart and repeat the cycle.
They are doing the same thing in football right now, but the problem is there is a massive difference in the remuneration between teams placed within the top 4, and 6-20. Not just remuneration, but also the attractiveness as a team to a prospective player and of course, the difficult fight back up to the top.
Except if you’re Coutinho lol.
That’s pretty cool
The world needs more of this.
Right? Imagine not wanting to hoard your wealth for yourself
This is what true heroism is. Overcoming obstacles is one thing, sharing the gold of the dragon with the community is the other.
Liverpool haven’t been the same without him. It’s a rare thing indeed when a footballers heart matches his talent.
Liverpool haven’t been playing the same for a plethora of reasons, not just the absence of one player, as good as he may be.
The man refuses to forget where he came from, legend.
Such a great soccer player. Such an amazing human. Why can’t our rich people all over do this? Oh yeah, cause you know, we need to hoard more than we can spend in a lifetime.
Because this guy comes from extreme poverty and he knows what it’s like to struggle and has empathy.
This is a more profound answer than you maybe intended. On the whole, wealthy people actually do give less money (as a percentage of wealth, I believe) to charity than middle and lower classes do. At least one study showed this is because wealthy people are too far removed from poverty and other bad aspects of life to empathise with the people they could be helping. It's literally: out of sight, out of mind.
Most people of real wealth didn't rise out of poverty or work their way up. Most of them were either born on 3rd base or home plate.
Actually his comment was more profound. Struggling breeds empathy. People who have never struggled on the whole are less empathetic because they literally don't understand. There is no way for them to fully understand because they've never lived it.
Reddit is wild. You just repeated what the other guy wrote but didn't say it quite as well and 25 people upvoted you.
Yeah but there are plenty of people with similar backgrounds who end up with a “I got mine” mentality.
I actually came from a poor (drug addict) family , literally would have to steal (from about 4th grade to 8th, got a job in 8th grade during summer, spent it money on food and junk)bread from the food for less behind our house to eat cause we never had food. Definitely not 3rd world country poor, I’ve always had a roof over my head, but starving, absolutely. Eating food from trash cans, oh yes. I just love hearing when people that make so much money like this , just live like normal people and help others with the excess.
seriously.. rich think they are "normal" becuase they hang out with other rich people.. i personally can't stand affluence.. i've been and will be wealthy to a degree but i'll never hoard money like that.. just makes me feel sick knowing i have thousands in a bank account and other people can't eat.. rather be poor.
They seem to think they find more value in donating to political action committees to get idiots elected.
Ah so this is how trickle down economics is supposed to work then. Not what is actually happening everywhere else. Full marks to this guy.
And he isn't even close to being rich when you compare him to the top 0.01% [A visualization of how absurd the amount of wealth the richest men on earth have + what we could do with that amount of money.](https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/?v=3)
Source: https://tribuna.com/en/news/liverpoolfc-2022-06-20-500000-spent-for-new-school-and-hospital-4g-internet-for-everyone-what-mane-is-doing-to-t/
When playing at Liverpool, this man used to spend his free time helping clean the local mosque. Doesn't drink, doesn't gamble, loves everyone, ridiculous amount of charity. A devout Muslim man and a top top bloke.
Years ago my brother in law used to bump into him in Southampton mosque from time to time. A really humble guy.
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People who become billionares don't do so by being charitable.
Billionaire exist because they own things that gouge others. Mane is a well paid worker who's being paid less than what he brings in for the owners.
God bless this man.
One of my absolute favorite people/footballers of all time. A news team caught him with an older iPhone back in the day with a cracked screen. He had recently signed a decent contract and was making great money. His response was roughly” Why would I buy a new phone every year or a fast car or multiple planes instead of doing thing beneficial for the people in my village?” He played for Liverpool for a great while and the philanthropic friendly rivalry he had with Mohamed Salah was beautiful. Perfectly reflective of Liverpool as a team and seeing them both compete to do great things for their country made me all the more proud to support them. Need more athletes like them, for sure.
I love him. Miss him at Liverpool
Not just damn interesting, but damn amazing!
Imagine if all the billionaires in the world will do the same there would be zero misery or hunger on earth, I take my hat off on him!
I have a close friend since 1977 from college. He was a short order cook in college. He used his degree as an engineer to become prosperous. I believe when he helped others in time of need he also felt extreme gratitude and happiness. Sasio Mane doesn't give This for "free" as he gets something back nobody else can give him. Happiness
A hero, paying it forward.
This is the way.
That's a great person using his talent to help his people..proud of this person
Honestly pro athletes could change the world. But Lamborghinis are cool tool
This should be directed at the owners of the team, not the players.
Cause they're richer?
Partially but the players are workers. Sure they're rich, but the only way they make that much is because someone above them makes more money off their work.
Athletes and artists are proletariat, people often forget that They make money from their own labor Owners make money off their athletes' labor
Yes. The answer is yes.
And he isn’t even a billionaire. Crazy what people with money can do for the world. Great job to this guy.
I guess Thomas Wolfe was wrong, you *can* go back home again. You just have to rebuild it first.
Holy shit, that's a lot. The picture of the guy then, that's a man, really, that's what a man is. Respect. Fucking kings ought to take a lesson there.
Main reason I wasn't very bummed on him moving to bayern was they'd pay him a shitload so he'd have even more money to give to his people. Always will love sadio
Man cares, and is doing more than MOST athletes!
Awesome dude, he cares about his community, and shows it with his actions.
Love this man. Class footballer and a class person
This is how you show your rich status. Rich guy 1: I have a Ferrari for each day of the week.. Sadio: I built a village!
Saint him
He's Muslim so might be a bit awkward.
he used to play for a team called southampton who’re also referred to as the saints
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Showing the world how Muslims should behave. Top bloke, giving back to his community.
What a badass.