Kamangir (Archer)

Rules Which Make Us Lose.

Kamangir | October 20, 2005 | Category Iran

I was just reading BBC news about the richest people in the world. See here for a list of the richest people in UK. Also, see here for a list of a the richest people of the whole world. The nice part for me was:

خليلی و اميديار تنها نامهای ايرانی اند که در سراسر فهرست ميلياردرهای فوربز که هزار نفر را شامل می شود، به چشم می خورند، هرچند پی ير اميديار هيچگاه در ايران زندگی نکرده و ناصر داوود خليلی حدود سه دهه است که در انگلستان به سر می برد.
اين در حالی است که از کشوری مانند ترکيه که همسايه ايران است و شرايط اقتصادی مشابه ايران دارد، هشت نفر در فهرست ثروتمندترينهای دنيا جای دارند و همگی آنان در کشور خود زندگی می کنند.

Khalili and Omidiar are the only Iranians in the whole list of billionaire of Forbes (?) which contains one thousand names. Though, Omidiar has never lived in Iran and Khalili has lived in UK for the last three decades. Compare this to Turkey, Iran’s neighbor which has an economy similar to Iran. There are eight Turkish people in the list, all living in their own country.

I was just thinking, haven’t we been so generous to the world? Isn’t it enough yet? Read here to see how we make ourselves loose just because we have this funny sense of sticking to some rules of ours.