Hi Tijan. I understand your concern.

Ebit Liew owns Elewsmart.
He owns restaurants.
He owns a company for training called Transform Training & Consultancy.
A fashion brand, Elews Design.
A cafe Paramount Coffee house.

Please open this thread. https://twitter.com/tijanishere/status/1336349413694828545
"You should keep your salary private if youre a business owner,"

1. Unfairness issues will surface by people who will misunderstand. If for a small amount, like the person you mentioned with a screenshot of a Maybank transaction, okay lah. But imagine thousands of ringgit. cont:
The margin of buying food for zoo negara for example:

Banana shop A, is RM4 setandan
And he purchases from shop A.

People who will misunderstand:
"Why banana RM4? I always buy banana RM2."

But understand, there are people who also buys Banana from shop C, RM7 setandan. cont:
Since you replied earlier about transparency in donations. Let me tell you, that it is not easy to collect information, and to share it with the world.

Have you thought about policies with stakeholders? Do you think its easy as ABC for you to disclose revenue, profit, quotation?
ESPECIALLY. TO DISCLOSE TRANSPARENCY IN DONATIONS, JUST BECAUSE OF A PUBLIC TWEET, INCITING ACCUSATIONS AND DOUBT.

As a business owner, transparency is not a universal solution. IT WILL CREATE NEW TROUBLES.
This mistake, disclosing public information about transactions ONLY IS APPLICABLE IF THERE ARE RATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.

The fact that the tone of your tweet is already inclining to accusing, rather than academically proving why transparency is a must in donation already proves it
TRANSPARENCY, also causes people to REBEL. We are human beings with opinions, and it is our nature, with questions especially in text form, will continuously reject information explaining why, unless we get the receipts ourselves.

We hate it when our ideas are challenged.
To explain this, under the context of business, if we find out that we are working the same field as our colleague and he/she/they get paid more: we will rebel.

We hate it when our uniqueness is challenged.
The more transparent you become, the more unnecessary questions, demand, statement you will need to answer.

Our society nowadays refuse to participate in self-educating, rather demanding business owners to rebel against policies just to satisfy what we inquire, rather than learn
TOO MUCH TRANSPARENCY, WILL CREATE A SOCIETY WHICH PRACTICES BLAMING CULTURE.

I REPEAT.

TOO MUCH TRANSPARENCY, WILL CREATE A SOCIETY WHICH PRACTICES BLAMING CULTURE.

Does "spill the tea", is a familiar term to you?
TRANSPARENCY: IS FACTS ON A TABLE.

But society nowadays, we cannot accept fact. We want to unnecessarily know WHY. Even though the facts are supposed to speak for themselves.

Blaming culture: what is the mistake, who did it, why, how are their relatives like and it goes on
Focusing too much, on wanting to know why, just because we refuse to accept new knowledge on policies, will discourage people.

When I stumbled upon your tweet, as a business owner myself, I fear that there are people who will NOT read, and assume that there are fraud.
Also, dont worry. There will be times when he WILL AND MUST reveal his transactions, when there are court cases of orang saman dia, the proper way (hiring a lawyer, documentation of case) of accusing a case of money laundering or fraud.

But not to the public lah, dalam makhamah.
Why not to the public? Because not only YOU, I am also not important in his transactions and spendings. And haha, I cannot affort to hire a lawyer and open case file some more, damn expensive..

I mean, if want to ask him to open his transparency la. Must have reason what.
The best way, to wield transparency, is by managing it well. And hes (Ebit Liew) is doing a damn pretty good job, by publishing where does all the donations and money go. And also, to the right people.

Dont cock-block people from feeling good when they donate, even if it is RM1.
Its the companies responsibility, to care for their transparency very well. They dont owe you shit. If you want to see, open court case, follow the law.

Why? You know people can practice system hacking just by decoding simple digits from transactions?
The image and publicity of his donation is his method of articulating transparency.

Youre not one of the many people who questioned his transparency. And I hope, my lengthy explanation will answer some of your concerns. Thanks and God Bless.
Do share with me your thoughts. Awaiting for your prompt reply. Will reply when I wake up in the morning.

If you have knowledge, do share. Im eager to learn.
https://twitter.com/kungfuheidi/status/1336390037164838912?s=20

Do read this back. IF, THERE ARE ELEMENTS OF FRAUD, do follow the right way to accuse.
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