Investment > voluntary-charity >> forced-charity (a.k.a tax funded welfarism)
Investment:
Investor gains satisfaction and more wealth.
'Investee'/employee gains wealth and confidence.
The willing customer gains higher life satisfaction by consuming the product.
Voluntary charity:
Donor gains mental satisfaction.
Charity receiver gains wealth but possibly develops a chip on their shoulder.
Forced charity (Same as Tax-Funded-Welfarism):
Donor suffers the pain of getting looted.
Charity-receiver gains wealth but possibly develops a chip on the shoulder and feels entitled to loot the more well-off.
Some more observations:
- In Fountainhead, Roark does charity on Keating by donating him his knowledge for Cosmo-Slotnick-building and Cortlandt-homes. But that act of charity did no good to Keating and morally/professionally decimated him in the long run.
- In Atlas-Shrugged, charity/giving is a banned cussword in Galt's Gulch for good reason.
- While I was in college, I was 'forced' by my social expectations to provide free tuitions to some students at a Student's home. In the beginning, I basked in the glamour of teaching higher-secondary physics in a reputable student's home. Also, I was awed by the sense of great social service I am rendering. Later, contrary to all brainwashing about the joys of charity, I grew resentful about spending my precious time in an activity which I could not easily back out of.
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