WibblyWobblyWonder, I didn't see a question in there. If you're just here to pontificate, I'll have to go on to someone else's questions.
Evidence does support a correlation between wealth and concern for others. Look at the Carnegie libraries, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Bloomberg Philanthropies Foundation, and the Nikaido Foundation, just to name four. Noah has told me that more than a hundred billionaires have signed The Giving Pledge. And Yomiko suggests you read the book Ralph Nader wrote in 2009. Being wealthy might not automatically make one more concerned for the wellbeing of one's fellow human beings, but it certainly doesn't make you less concerned for others' wellbeing.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Evidence does support a correlation between wealth and concern for others. Look at the Carnegie libraries, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Bloomberg Philanthropies Foundation, and the Nikaido Foundation, just to name four. Noah has told me that more than a hundred billionaires have signed The Giving Pledge. And Yomiko suggests you read the book Ralph Nader wrote in 2009. Being wealthy might not automatically make one more concerned for the wellbeing of one's fellow human beings, but it certainly doesn't make you less concerned for others' wellbeing.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012