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Assuage your guilt?

• ambicapter 8y ago
  > 1. To make (something burdensome or painful) less intense or severe: assuage her grief. See Synonyms at relieve. > 2. To satisfy or appease (hunger or thirst, for example). > 3. To appease or calm: assuaged his critics. https://www.thefreedictionary.com/assuage https://www.thefreedictionary.com/assuage
  • throwaway37585 8y ago
    I was asking why the GP thinks assuaging guilt is a motivation here.
    • CamTin 8y ago
      It's pretty well documented that a lot of the lavish philanthropy of gilded age barons like Carnegie and Rockefeller was motivated by their guilt and concern about not being able to thread a camel through a needle. I don't know about the religious motivations of our current crop of billionaires, but presumably a lot of the same motivations are at play, since human nature hasn't changed substantially in the past 100 years.