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There are varying ways of looking at charity.
If I remember the books right, there were 19th century Robber Barons who would skin a flea for the marketable value of its hide, yet founded schools, libraries, museums, hospitals, charities and such. There are the current batch of billionaires, who perhaps justify a predatory, take no prisoners form of capitalism by either justifying their existence or salving their conscience by giving to one charity or another. However, the newest number one billionaire - Mexican telecommunications mogul Carlos Slim (who has brushed off criticism concerning his lack of charitable contribution) - has another philosophy which directly corresponds to the Mexican national reality that one doesn't eat if one doesn't work (and maybe not eat sufficiently even if one does work): the best charity is providing job opportunity.
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