NLA Discussion:Capitalism is a working system, people are irrational

[rkrawiec at mindspring.com]

>, it is often those same people
>who disproportionately fund and tirelessly work for social causes.

Actually, every study I've seen on giving shows that the people with the
least money give the highest percentage to charitable causes, and the people
with the largest incomes give the smallest percentage, and what they do
contribute often goes, at least in the arts, to support orchestras, art
museums, i.e. institutions that traditionally serve upper income people,
those like themselves.
rk
-----Original Message-----
From: Rsrchjoey at aol.com <Rsrchjoey at aol.com>
To: nla at world.std.com <nla at world.std.com>
Date: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 10:41 AM
Subject: NLA Discussion:Capitalism is a working system, people are
irrational


>
>Catherine King writes:
>
>> However, the lack of moral "enlightenment" in those six-chimney
>> homes, and the quiet avoidance in our corporate boardrooms, should not go
>> unremarked.   Where creating a working economy is part of our
success,this
>> quiet greed is a big part of our failure.
>
>I think we ought to refrain from broad over-generalizations based on
>"symbols".  Just because someone lives in a "six-chimney home" does not
mean
>that they lack "moral enlightenment".  Indeed, it is often those same
people
>who disproportionately fund and tirelessly work for social causes.  I
cannot
>speak with the same conviction for many corporations, but I know there are
>those that have wonderful policies and programs which benefit those less
>fortunate.
>
>Jo Ann Doino-Ingersoll
>Strategic Research
>Mahwah, NJ
>RsrchJoey at aol.com
>