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Why do the poorest give more to charity than the richest?

I'm not telling you that. Fucked off with U75 digs at my suspected income.

(No offence Minnie, no malice directed at you)

It's no ones business but your own what you earn. Why would anyone make digs about your income? :confused:
 
I'm not telling you that. Fucked off with U75 digs at my suspected income.

I've seen that thread. Nowt to be ashamed off mate.

Tbf a lot rich people know what it's like to have very little too. Charity isn't all about giving money to a cause or throwing into a box, round here for instance we give our old clothes to the younger kids growing up on the estate. It's good for the community.
 
@ OP, because they are closer to it and therefore can empathise/sympathise more. Big Issue sellers do better in poorer areas than wealthy areas too I have had reported. Wealthy people either don't understand how people can be so poor, or don't understand why they don't just work themselves out of poverty like they did.
 
No. But you're taking that rather literaly no?? ;)

Philanthropist would be a wonderful position to be in though :)

The philanthropists of old used to buy land on which they thought they could educate the working class. I hope the new generation support us in a similar way, without the 'education'...
 
The philanthropists of old used to buy land on which they thought they could educate the working class. I hope the new generation support us in a similar way, without the 'education'...

I'm talking about Bill and Miranda Gates style etc
 
I used to work for a charity that collected second hand furniture, for resale to those people who couldn't even afford to buy first hand furniture, let alone give it away when they didn't want it. When many of the people that we'd sold items to, for £10 up to about £100, had finished with their furniture, it only went one way and that was to the tip.

And yet, do you know what? They would be the people who would give you tea and biscuits. And try and tip you after you'd delivered their wardrobe, even though the fucking thing was falling apart. Poor people understand what its like to do shit jobs for no money mostly, or they used to. Similarly, people from lower income bands feel some empathy which i think is sadly lacking from many aspirational members of our society today.

The rich are getting rich and the poor are getting shat on..... its a life long story unfortunately, but you look after your own at the end of the day imo :) night
 
There are a lot of things we 'know' or that are 'common sense' that turn out, after some research, to be fallacies or misinterpreted.
 
Why do you need 'research' to explain what you already know?

Because I don't already know.

Are you saying that the total amount given by poor people is greater than the total amount given by rich people, that is all poor people's giving added together and all rich people's giving added together the poor outgive the rich. And in which case how do you define poor people and rich people?

Or are you saying that poor people give on average a greater proportion of their income or wealth than rich people? the same questions apply, what is poor, what is rich?

I know people who both donate to charity and give generously of their time to help out old people in the community. There is no charity organisation involved in their looking after the elderly in their community, they just gather up all the elderly people and give them a nice party every month. Is that not giving but how would you measure it?
 
Why?

salaam.

People of limited means have more empathy for others of limited means because they know that the cards are stacked against anyone of limited means. Some of the rich, on the other hand, are not aware how difficult it is from limited means to reach a more comfortable state.

I've had numerous arguments with tories who give me the american-dream type argument that if anyone works hard enough they can come good financially. This argument belies an ignorance of such things as the appaling nature of state education and the difficulty of getting jobs. It makes my blood boil when I hear people say "well if they just work hard enough...". And its not just an ignorance regarding education and opportunities but a failure to understand the psychology of the down-trodden. Laziness is not in the genes. Everyone wants to do well but some people become dispirited when avenues are closed to them. Sorry perhaps I'm going off the point here...
 
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