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Originally Posted by davenotdead
to the bold: thats why its called "volunteer work"
also, a lot of the richest people of the world are also the biggest philanthropists. i could argue that bill gates does more to help 'the world' than 99.9% of the poor starving artist liberals do, just because they recycle and choose bikes over cars etc... they think that gives them the right to yell/scoff at rich people.
of course the world would be better if people weren't greedy. but taking away incentives for people who work hard to make money, well i just don't think that would help
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A lot of philanthropists donate for the tax benefits. Some do so because they have hearts. It is dangerous to generalize too much.
A part of what worries me is that we think of rich people as being
better people, people who are more worthy and whatnot.