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Doing economically well makes people more generous ? Do you know research to backup your believe ? Its not what I experience around me. The more we have, the mo
by Gys 8y ago
Doing economically well makes people more generous ? Do you know research to backup your believe ? Its not what I experience around me. The more we have, the more afraid we can loose it again, it seems to me.
- wuliwong 8y agoDo you know research to backup what you believe?
- mdorazio 8y agoThere's actually a fair amount. This SA article summarizes some of it [1]. [1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-wealth-reduces-compassion/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-wealth-reduce...
- wuliwong 8y agoMy comment was was rhetorical. The purpose was to point out that the OP was asking for research to back up a claim but not offering anything but their anecdotal experience for the contrary view.
- paulddraper 8y agoStudy of High Net Worth Philanthropy is published every few years. https://www.ustrust.com/publish/content/application/pdf/GWMOL/USTp_ARMCGDN7_oct_2017.pdf https://www.ustrust.com/publish/content/application/pdf/GWMO... That's focuses only on the wealthy ($200k income or $1m assets), but within that group, higher incomes consistently donate a greater percentage to charity.
- Gys 8y agoThe research in this article (2010) tells a different story: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/magazine/22FOB-wwln-t.html https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/magazine/22FOB-wwln-t.htm...
- paulddraper 8y agoThe original research (not NYTimes journalism) is actually from 2001 [1] 1. Of the income groups studied, the highest percentage of income donated was from the <$25k group, with 4.2% ($587/yr), about one percent more than the 3.1% ($1,620/yr) average. But the study's highest income division was only $100k. Had they included more ranges, they would find that giving goes much higher, e.g. $200k-500k donates 8.3% and $2m+ donates 14.0%. [2] 2. Also in the original study (though absent from the NYTimes article nine years later), is the finding that more people donated at the higher income levels. 77% donated in the lowest income group, but 97% donated in the highest. And I would give that fact considerable weight for supporting the assertion "if the common folk of Europe were doing economically better, they would have been more generous". [1] http://www.cpanda.org/pdfs/gv/GV01Report.pdf http://www.cpanda.org/pdfs/gv/GV01Report.pdf [2] https://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/almanac/statistics/who-gives https://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/almanac/statistics/wh...
- fenwick67 8y agoThis is interesting but I don't think you can assume this phenomenon applies to a whole county's wage growth.