Giving: A Matter of Social Anthropology
For the last 7 years, I have worked and researched within the world of philanthropy . I have developed great proposals, basked in the warmth of real social impact , and counted good money. It’s been fulfilling work, both intellectually and morally. In these years, I developed a conviction that our world operates in an imbalance as I learnt the intricacies of wealth and generosity. As I advanced my studies, I figured that this inequality was not inevitable, as wealth redistribution is possible! Hence , a simple way to tilt this imbalance, I once thought, would be to encourage giving as a sort of moral correction to an unequal system. But, in a deeper reflection of analyzing financing around social causes, I find it imperative to interrogate dynamics around the 'generous' . By skewed definition, these are a handful of individuals who hoard unimaginable wealth, then “ give back ” through foundations that often bear their names. Why are they bent on...