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Do you not think it is possible to be virtuous without "virtue signalling"? But then I suppose there would be nothing to get angry about.

• 3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
  It's possible. Donations don't have to be public. We live in a world where it pays back to be liked, so people imitate it superficially, often with ulterior motives. Steve Jobs is popularly known as a "stingy jerk" but actually he's made many private donations, and through Apple, while explicitly keeping it away form the public eye. He's donated over $50 million to Stanford hospitals and has contributed to many other charitable projects, but opting to be involved rather than just give money and forget about it. A lot of this only became known after his death. True charity is hard. As it's about results, not intent. That's true virtue. Intent is cheap, even if it involves billions, because donations unless tracked through to the end, often disappear in various pockets having nothing to do with the intended cause.