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The rest of my post that this quote was taken from explains it. In a nutshell, a safety should be just that: a safety net–NOT a way of life.
Aside from WIC and SNAP, which are just a drop in the safety net bucket, can you give an example of what you’re talking about? Which recipients are doing this and what benefits are they receiving?
From my personal experience, rich people in general give money if they can get something back - a really great party celebrating their generosity, a really nice building named after them, etc.
This may be true, but I hope you see the fallacy here: you don’t notice whatever anonymous or low-key giving they may be doing.
True, but the same applies to the charity by liberals both rich and poor, and poor conservatives. I’ve worked doing audio and video for far too many “I’m So Awesome” parties to celebrate the opening of the John Q. Smith Hospital Wing, or the Lipshitz Pavilion to believe the gesture was selfless. The difference between the charitable giving that a woman who makes $20,000 a year and gives $1000 and the one who makes $20,000,000 and gives $1,000,000? The latter gets her name on something that will be standing for decades, for the same percentage. And doesn’t run the risk of ever missing a meal to do so, unlike the former.
I do know some millionaires (I do their computer support), and several of them are fine, good, generous people (and a couple are genuine shits). And in my experience, charity is almost always accompanied by publicity.