Like the poor lack empathy and then as you go up the bell curve empathy rises, maxing out at middle class, and then again falling as you start hitting being rich?
Like the poor lack empathy and then as you go up the bell curve empathy rises, maxing out at middle class, and then again falling as you start hitting being rich?
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The pattern is poorer & richer people give more. The poorer people understand hardship & help one another. The richer people have more to give (and financial incentives to do so, such as tax write-offs).
The middle class gives the least, likely because they feel the most pinched on maintaining a quality of life that’s often becoming more expensive.
The poor, In my opinion, have the MOST empathy. They give a lot as a percentage of income & have the most to lose.
Your intuition is pretty much the opposite of the statistics.
Just because the cause you donate to is a tax write-off doesn’t mean it’s charitable. Example: all the charities that Trump used as grifts. His entire family is now forbidden from running “charities”.
Also, fuck you for equating monetary donations with actual empathy.
This feels like a grave mischaracterization of what I wrote. I don’t think you’re a good faith actor. Have a good one.
We’re talking about empathy and you immediately turn to finance as a measure of it. When it is not. Not at all.