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the slowest way to spend money and the fastest way to feel rich
means the voluntary giving of money, help, or kindness to those in need — or the organizations set up to channel it.
from From Latin caritas, meaning 'dearness, costly love' — the kind of regard that holds another person as precious. It rolled through Old French charite into English, where for centuries it carried a deeper weight than mere almsgiving: in older Bibles, 'charity' is the word chosen to translate the highest love. Only later did it narrow to coins in a collection plate.
- old name
- once meant love, the highest virtue named
- overhead myth
- low spending often starves the best charities
- matching trick
- matched donations rarely change what donors give
- giving paradox
- poorer households donate larger shares of income
- tax origin
- Rome exempted temples to encourage public generosity
for instance
doctors without borders — operates in 70+ countries, won nobel peace prize in 1999
oxfam international — founded 1942, works in 90+ countries fighting poverty and inequality