philanthropy

Giving It All Away

By Erik Loomis

In General

On January 15, 2023

I despise philanthropy with the heat of a thousand suns. Relying on the wealthy to fund our priorities is a disaster--we are completely at their whims, or the whims of the committees when the foundations exist. You out of fashion? You are gone. It's terrible....

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On Philanthropy

By Erik Loomis

On April 19, 2017

Americans love philanthropy because we love individualism and we love our rich. We indeed think that could be us with some luck and hard work. Bootstrapism remains a powerful mythology.

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Andrew Carnegie: Tycoon Medievalism

By Erik Loomis

On May 10, 2016

Something that drives me really crazy is when people today cite Andrew Carnegie as a good capitalist because he gave away a bunch of money to build libraries. People saw.

Philanthropy in the Two Gilded Ages

By Erik Loomis

In General

On June 23, 2015

I've said this before and I'll probably say it again--the judge of a wealthy person is in my book about 10% what they do when they have achieved massive wealth and 90% their personal behavior when acquiring that wealth. The sins of Andrew Carnegie could...