sis
of your story from
the atlantic
there were apparently uh... fourteen
charitable gifts that topped one hundred million in the last year
showered with attention hundred fifty million from carl icahn to mount sinai
school of medicine
one twenty five from phil knight to the organ health and science university
three hundred from paul allen
to the alan institute for brain science in seattle
marty sass come in
endow the more mortimer b zuckerman mind brain behavior institute
and as such ken starr and writes
you'd be forgiven for thinking the story of charity this country's history of
abit generosity
and the part of the american rich
however
twenty eleven
the wealthiest americans those with earnings at the top twenty percent
contributed on average one point three percent of their income to charity
by comparison
americans at the base of the income pyramid
those in the bottom twenty percent
joe dated three point two percent of their income
and keep in mind folks
that are like a middle-class and wealthy donors
people living in the bottom twenty percent of the income spectrum in this
country
really more last to not get tax deductions
you know i don't know as their deductions on their income tax returns
why is this
some experts
have as speculated that
we we don't know i obviously
there's really no specific way but some experts have been speculate according to
this piece
that wealthy people
just in the main
are less generous
that deep personal drive to accumulate wealth may be inconsistent with the idea
of communal support
it was a report by paul half a psychologist at u_c_ berkeley
shut the research that said that while
correlated
without unethical behavior
quote from pulpit while having money does msn i make anybody anything
he said to new york magazine the rich are away more likely to prioritize their
own self-interest above the interests of other people
they are a quote
more likely to exhibit characteristics that we would start out typically
associate with saying
a holes
he actually uses the entire work
last year now one of the top fifty individual charity charitable gifts
the biggest
fifty charitable gifts in the country not one of them
went to a surly social service organization
or your charity that principally serve the poor dispossessed
think about that
patrick rooney beginning at the indiana university sis cool felicity
said that greater exposure to identify identification of the challenges bt
basic needs
they create higher empathy among lower-income donors
not words
the rats live in such a bubble
that they think
at the biggest needs for charity
or the most ethically they can feel are
with like the needs of co
helping with higher education
i've gotta get my money to the elite institutions of higher education
to help them continue line
and or
i want the elite
of our society to pass through doors
buying game about it
that's basically what it comes down to i think
i can build the big building like trumpet
or i can have
ticket donate the money to university or to a medical institute
and have people
go in and out
people who are specifically
going to be creating other things in society
other institutions
so they can perceive medium migrate
greider two guests
well the people who live in homogeneous lee affluent areas
areas were more than forty percent of households are get least two hundred
thousand a year
were less generous
in comparably wealthy people
who lived in more economically diverse surroundings
so there you have it
out