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at airport when I was a broke student on my last dollar, I booked the wrong ticket home. the only choice I had was to buy a new one one for $2000. I went out the airport door, sat on the floor, put my head down between my knees and started sobbing silently and hopelessly because I felt the whole world was against everything I try to do. Then out of nowhere, a lufthansa airline employee told me to come inside and changed my ticket for another that works for just $200. I know that employee put themselves in trouble to save me. until today I wish I could pay them for what they did. they are the reason that I’ve done and continued to do many silimar deeds for strangers since.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
Many years ago, I was with some fellow volunteers outside a popular shopping mall, raising money for a new ambulance. There were many people who could have obviously been able to spare a bill or two, but they were too full of themselves to even look at our faces, let alone the fliers we were handing out.
Then one old guy with a bottle of beer in one hand and dressed like that was his only dinner came out of the shop, looked at us, and put his beer change in our bucket, saying something along the lines of “you do something important”.
Made our day.
Those people who were “too full of themselves” might have their own problems, and they might also donate in other places unseen by you.
Ya, and I can only speak for myself, but I don’t have a lot to give to charity so when I do it sure as heck isn’t random. There’s far too many scammy charities out there for that, I don’t donate anything without at least a little researching first.
Poor people give away a much higher percentage of their wealth than rich people.
This seems plausible, so I searched and found this on the Wikipedia:
Various studies have examined who gives more to charity. A study in the United States found that as income decreases, charitable giving increases as a percentage of income. For instance, the poorest fifth of Americans donated 4.3% of their income, while the wealthiest fifth donated 2.1%. In absolute terms, this translated to an average donation of $453 from an average income of $10,531, compared to $3,326 from an income of $158,388.
Let’s play make it unwholesome, I’ll start:
He was expecting you to buy him something more expensive out of the kindness of your heart the ~$2.00 strap was an investment, he just didn’t expect you to be so cold as to take a homeless man’s last dollar and not repay the kindness.
Nah, let’s not. Dicking on the unhoused is the very definition of punching down.
You are confusing the generosity of the poor with mindset of the rich
