The article defines "charity" in an incomplete way; simply giving your money away is only half of the equation. The other half of donating money is finding the

The article defines "charity" in an incomplete way; simply giving your money away is only half of the equation. The other half of donating money is finding the organization that will leverage it to the most good. You could simply give away your money by dropping dollar bills out of a hot air balloon, but most people wouldn't consider that as charitable as donating the same money to cancer research. Perhaps the article truly is pointing out that the rich see charity as an investment where poor people see it simply as "giving extra money away."