Rich Democrats Don’t Care About Income Inequality Any More Than Rich Republicans

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93. And just getting to those lines may be onerous or effectively

impossible. My husband is a Meals on Wheels volunteer.

I like your point about charity increasing the social power of money. I hadn't thought about it in that direction, but of course it does. Here in the South it has even more power than where we used to live. Most of our neighbors really do believe money and lack of it are measures of a person's worthiness. They have other criteria, of course, but that's the one right up front for quick assessment and tends to rule.

Their comfort with inequality probably explains the humble willingness of people who could pay more to accept charity for updating their library or some such thing with gratitude. What I see as undignified and abrogating responsibility they see very, very differently, as evidence of a natural order at work.