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    2 years ago

    This isn’t strictly wrong but more meaningless: when it’s done mostly for self-satisfaction. My grandfather’s second wife was like this. She was wealthy for most of her life and loved to be a patron of the arts so she could get her name on things. As The Good Place put it, you can raise all the money you want, but if your motives are impure then it doesn’t count.

    Along those same lines, the “hero mentality” type of charity, where someone (often a rich white person) comes into a community and gives money but never listens to the community about what they really need.