Never underestimate the emotion of GRATITUDE. Nevertheless , you must be a CAPITALIST first before fame and fortune flatters you as a PHILANTHROPIST. If you left a bar of gold untouched in a bank vault , it will still be a bar of gold a century later. But as invested Capital it can command the living labor and the brain power of hundreds of EXPLOITED workers. So the philanthropy of the rich is a sort of ballyhooed giving back - on the cheap. Even that curmudgeon H. L. Mencken would agree with me.
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