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Is It Wrong To Make Money While Others Suffer?

August 27, 2010 · 7 comments

in behavioral finance, cashflow, charity, decisions, low-income, money decisions, networth, philanthropy, poverty, psychology, rags to riches, wealthbuilding

How often do you stop and think about your investment portfolio and then feel gluttonous or greedy once you turn to read the latest article on the earthquake in Central America or the floods in Pakistan?  How about if you’re checking your stocks on the iPhone and then you walk past someone sitting on the [...]

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Other Names for the Redistribution of Wealth

July 13, 2010 · 5 comments

in George Soros, bailout, charity, economics, gifts, philanthropy, stock exchanges, terminology, wealth, wealth transfer

U.S. public discourse especially, particularly during election seasons, as we saw in the primaries leading up to Obama’s election, makes a lot of fuss with the phrase “the redistribution of wealth.”
Those using the phrase seem to intend it to refer to some type of “Robin Hood” scenario, where some guy steals from the rich in order [...]

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Is it Wrong to Sponsor Children in Africa?

May 30, 2008 · 3 comments

in philanthropy

What do you think?

My understanding is that some people might view the “sponsorship” of a child by someone in the West as yet another “colonial” kind of move on behalf of the “First World” interfering with the “Third World” (I know those terms are no longer politically correct).
But what if you’re just really helping someone [...]

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