On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Derek Zahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As to why sympathetic rich people are > apparently not willing to toss this consideration aside, it doesn't make > much sense to me unless they simply don't think specific approaches are > feasible -- although there's also a disconnect between sympathies and > checkbooks, which is why we have cliche phrases like "put your money where > your mouth is" and "talk is cheap".
Sympathetic rich people often want to keep their money for the same reasons that sympathetic poor people want to keep their money, and sympathetic G7 middle-class people (who are rich compared with the median person in the world, and are filthy rich compared with the average person who's lived throughout history) want to keep their money. There's almost always someone richer and more successful than you who you can use as an excuse to shirk, if you're the shirking type. As to why many people prefer saving whales to fighting malaria, and fighting malaria to building an FAI, well, that's more complicated, and any answer I give would be long and would almost certainly be wrong in some minor detail. -Rolf ------------------------------------------- singularity Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/11983/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/11983/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=4007604&id_secret=98631122-712fa4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
