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>Upper-class participants said 2.1% of incomes should be donated. Lower-class individuals felt that 5.6% was the appropriate slice. Upper-class participants who
by endtime 16y ago
>Upper-class participants said 2.1% of incomes should be donated. Lower-class individuals felt that 5.6% was the appropriate slice. Upper-class participants who were induced to believe they were lower class suggested 3.1%. And lower-class individuals who had been “psychologically promoted” thought 3.3% was about right.
What's with the assumption that charity should scale linearly with income? With the numbers they give, people making 250k wanted to give $5250 and people making 25k wanted to give $1400.
- notahacker 16y agoTheoretically at least, people making 250k are far less likely to notice the missing $5250 or even the missing $14k if they scale linearly: they'll consume a much smaller proportion of income in the present and are much less likely to encounter problems resulting from lack of savings in the future.