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How extreme generosity can feel cruel rather than kind

I tip servers more than they make in a week and I can see it makes them uncomfortable but I do not know what else to do.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Acts of kindness become demonstrations of inequality that highlight rather than address systemic problems.

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“Where Are You with The ethics of extreme wealth?”

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