4. The Economics of Charity
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4. The Economics of Charity
The charitable man really helps the non-charitable, not the indigent. For what is given to the poor is virtually given away to those who do not give anything to the poor. The non-charitable, therefore, are kept in their state of nonbenevolence, and the benevolent man pays for them. This is the economics of charity