Brain Guy Too Smart For His Own Good?
Hello Everyone,
Noticed this little tidbit on Yahoo earlier this week.
”Ryuta Kawashima, the researcher behind Nintendo’s Brain Age series of games for the DS portable system, would rather be working than enjoying $11 million in royalties he could have earned from his creations.”
‘Not a single yen has gone in my pocket,’ Dr. Kawashima told the AFP in a recent interview. Under the terms of his agreement with his employer, Tohoku University in Japan’s north-east region, Kawashima was entitled to accept half the Brain Age royalties personally. Instead, he used the proceeds to help fund $6.5 million in construction projects on Tohoku’s campus.
‘My hobby is work,’ he said. ‘Everyone in my family is mad at me but I tell them that if they want money, go out and earn it.’”
Now isn’t that an impressive life attitude. I can really respect this dude for thinking this way. I mean I know that I would take the money, I’m just not that principled.
Donating that money to help Tohoku University is astounding and the sad thing about it: That I’m so impressed someone is doing a nice thing. You just don’t hear that anymore. No one says I’ve rightfully earned 11 million dollars and I’m giving it a large chunk of it to charity.
The best part of this attitude is the unforgiving nature of it, especially to his family. Telling his family to go earn their own money was a nice touch. Too bad there’s not enough Americans out there with a similar philosophy.
Mind you I’m not saying that the rich should give away all that they earn to charity. You make 11 million and you do with it as you please. But with so many rich kids out there plaguing mankind I’d think telling your ungrateful sociopathic little s**ts to go out and earn their way would not be a bad thing.
Maybe we’d have a few more Ryuta Kawashima Jr’s. and fewer Paris Hilton’s if more parents really cared about their children. Money is not a right or a privilege, it’s a means of surviving the harsh world and obtaining a little security. The problem with a lot of people they want too much security and they want their children to be perfectly safe all their life equally. They want what’s best for their children, to not have to suffer like they did and so that teaches them the wrong lesson.
Life is hard and everyone needs to earn the right to live it.
I bid adieu,
your Origami reporter,
L.Manly
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