Is Philanthropy Driven by the Human Desire to Cheat Death?
Postcard of the Carnegie Library in Vancouver BC, c1905, funded by a bequest from the American philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. Courtesy Rob/Flickr By Jacob Burak / 10.25.2017 In Socialism for Millionaires (1896), the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw quipped that a rich man ‘does not really care whether his money does good or not, provided he finds his conscience eased[…]