Giving it away to “get some”
Charity, like conspicuous consumption, is about attracting the opposite sex. I always thought that being polite, like when gentlemen open doors for ladies, serves the same purpose — “I can afford to help you and STILL be highly successful!”
Here is the story:
http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9581656
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Although it started out as a means of practising expressing myself, this blog is turning out to be more of a compendium of interesting information I come across. One of these days I’ll have to actually write something as opposed to cut and paste. 
