He Built a Fortune in Rubber, Then Gave Away Every Cent
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He Built a Fortune in Rubber, Then Gave Away Every Cent
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Fifteen thousand acres of rubber. Thirty thousand men working for him.
He gave away every cent of it — and left his own children nothing.
In 1903, a young clerk in Singapore came home to find his father's rice business collapsed — and behind it, a debt he was under no legal obligation to touch. He shouldered it anyway. Within two decades, Tan Kah Kee (陈嘉庚) was the richest man in Southeast Asia. Fifteen thousand acres. Thirty thousand workers. Offices on five continents. Then the Great Depression took rubber from 35 cents a pound to 7, and the creditors took the rest.
This is the part the obituaries skip. Broke, and drawing a salary from the men who had seized his company, Tan kept funding a teachers' college and a university in China. First from that salary. Then from the one business the collapse never touched. He had a theory about money: hoarded, it did nothing; spread, it grew things. Andrew Carnegie gave that idea a name. Tan reached it on his own, half a world away — and unlike most who preach it, he gave to the last cent.
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