stackyFACTSEconomists ruthlessly classify altruism as 'warm-glow giving.' They argue that people do not hand a twenty-dollar bill to a charity purely to save the whales; they do it because the neurological spike of feeling morally superior is intensely valuable. You are effectively just purchasing a hit of serotonin wrapped in philanthropy.
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