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Per capita meaning you take how much money was donated and divided by the number of people? That would just mean that some Americans donate a lot. Non Profit

Per capita meaning you take how much money was donated and divided by the number of people? That would just mean that some Americans donate a lot. Non Profit work does not mean charity. It can be working on a hobby you do for fun

c0vfefe 8y ago
> That would just mean that some Americans donate a lot. Are you saying this doesn't also occur in other nations, like Germany?
- strken 8y ago
  The US has the highest level of wealth inequality in the world, so assuming that the ultra-rich donate more, their impact should be higher in the US than anywhere else.
  - minikites 8y ago
    >assuming that the ultra-rich donate more That's a terrible assumption: https://www.fool.com/taxes/2018/07/02/heres-how-much-the-average-american-taxpayer-gives.aspx https://www.fool.com/taxes/2018/07/02/heres-how-much-the-ave...
  - daliusd 8y ago
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_equality https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_... As you see you are wrong. As well you are wrong about statistics - see this https://www.britannica.com/science/law-of-large-numbers https://www.britannica.com/science/law-of-large-numbers
    - strken 8y ago
      That's income inequality. You want wealth inequality. http://fortune.com/2015/09/30/america-wealth-inequality/ http://fortune.com/2015/09/30/america-wealth-inequality/ Admittedly they only surveyed 55 countries, which I will openly admit to missing. In addition, I'm not sure how the law of large numbers applies to wealth, which roughly follows a power law instead of being randomly distributed.
      - daliusd 8y ago
        I think I want income inequality. Wealth inequality might be totally meaningless as wealth is guesstimate not exact value usually, e.g. look here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_distribution_of_wealth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_distribut..., is hard to say anything at all from Gini Wealth. Zimbabwe and Denmark can be compared by Gini index but that's completely nonsensical result: one corrupt and one happiest country in the world. I have mentioned law of large numbers because of population size, however rich ultra-rich might be that can't skew results in USA.

c0vfefe 8y ago

> That would just mean that some Americans donate a lot. Are you saying this doesn't also occur in other nations, like Germany?

strken 8y ago
The US has the highest level of wealth inequality in the world, so assuming that the ultra-rich donate more, their impact should be higher in the US than anywhere else.
- minikites 8y ago
  >assuming that the ultra-rich donate more That's a terrible assumption: https://www.fool.com/taxes/2018/07/02/heres-how-much-the-average-american-taxpayer-gives.aspx https://www.fool.com/taxes/2018/07/02/heres-how-much-the-ave...
- daliusd 8y ago
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_equality https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_... As you see you are wrong. As well you are wrong about statistics - see this https://www.britannica.com/science/law-of-large-numbers https://www.britannica.com/science/law-of-large-numbers
  - strken 8y ago
    That's income inequality. You want wealth inequality. http://fortune.com/2015/09/30/america-wealth-inequality/ http://fortune.com/2015/09/30/america-wealth-inequality/ Admittedly they only surveyed 55 countries, which I will openly admit to missing. In addition, I'm not sure how the law of large numbers applies to wealth, which roughly follows a power law instead of being randomly distributed.
    - daliusd 8y ago
      I think I want income inequality. Wealth inequality might be totally meaningless as wealth is guesstimate not exact value usually, e.g. look here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_distribution_of_wealth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_distribut..., is hard to say anything at all from Gini Wealth. Zimbabwe and Denmark can be compared by Gini index but that's completely nonsensical result: one corrupt and one happiest country in the world. I have mentioned law of large numbers because of population size, however rich ultra-rich might be that can't skew results in USA.