simonalkenmayer:

comcastkills:

comcastkills:

What stops rich people from donating to charity as often as everyone else?

Especially like rich doctors who know a patient can’t afford treatment or something…why?

I don’t understand it at all. Someone please explain or add because this is bothering me and I don’t want a generic answer like “rich people are more greedy”. There must be something more to it.

“But why? Lower-income Americans are presumably no more intrinsically generous (or “prosocial,” as the sociologists say) than anyone else. However, some experts have speculated that the wealthy may be less generous—that the personal drive to accumulate wealth may be inconsistent with the idea of communal support.”

So from what I’ve read this seems to be pretty much a result of capitalism. Which is kinda what I expected.

It’s because they don’t become wealthy by giving away their money. They learn habits of hoarding, and the farther they move into wealth, the less they remember the discrepancy between wealth and poverty. $50 is nothing for a truly wealthy person, but it is everything to the poor. However, the farther they come into wealth, the less that ratio is remembered. More and more, the hoarding habits take over, and are justified by psychology, meaning that the “Get a job and do as I have done” mentality takes over.

This is sometimes not true. Bill Gates almost single handedly funds AIDS research and aid. He has so much money it doesn’t matter if he gives half of it away, because he’ll never be able to spend it all anyway.