People with money to spare have more money to share. Makes sense. I’m not sure if “poor people don’t have enough money to donate to natural disasters when they’re all suffering together” is much of a headline though.
I’m not being dishonest. Just questioning the value of the information. Of course rich people are more likely to leverage a social network that contains other rich people?
People with money to spare have more money to share. Makes sense. I’m not sure if “poor people don’t have enough money to donate to natural disasters when they’re all suffering together” is much of a headline though.
The issue isn’t that rich donaters have more money to spare.
Its that richer people are able to leverage their social status to gain 28% more donations.
You’ve framed this rather dishonestly imo.
I’m not being dishonest. Just questioning the value of the information. Of course rich people are more likely to leverage a social network that contains other rich people?
Good, so now that we’ve studied it we can know for sure this is the case and not just a “well it sounds right”.
And before this study, how many people even thought this was the case? Sure in hindsight it checks out.
Yup—this whole article is a big fat nothing burger, but it’ll generate clicks, which is all that matters in the digital age.
EDIT: Judging from some of the comments in this thread, rage bait headlines work. For better or worse.
The important message of the article for me was “Crowdfunding is a poor replacement for charity”
That would have been a more informative headline
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