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Originally Posted by jayswin
A lot of millionaire/billionaire philanthropists hold their philanthropy up as a card in their ever going life of wealth accumulation.
Call me cynical, but I believe most people on earth would be decent to excellent philanthropists given extreme wealth, as it doesn't take a lot to give millions when you have billions, yet you look like you're giving the world away to the common earner, and they're too often held up this way by society.
I'm much more impressed by low income earners that struggle with bills and still see it important in their lives to give what little they can spare. But those people don't have the media in their pocket to show up and take their picture as they make their donation.
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Exactly and then they don't turn around and expect free handouts from government or the like.
Now to be fair, we don't exactly hear these sentiments from Flames ownership either (so, I don't actually think they expect this- can't imagine they would anyway), it's people on this site or random people making that argument, but the point of that argument is asinine.