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Episode: Amy Schiller, "The Price of Humanity: How Philanthropy Went WrongâAnd How to Fix It" (Melville House, 2023)
Description: Amy Schiller's The Price of Humanity: How Philanthropy Went WrongâAnd How to Fix It (Melville House, 2023) makes an attempt to rescue philanthropy from its progressive decline into vanity projects that drive wealth inequality, so that it may support human flourishing as originally intended. The word âphilanthropyâ today makes people think big moneyâBill and Melinda Gates, Warren Buffet, and Andrew Carnegie come to mind. The scope of suffering in the world seems to demand an industry of giving, and yet for all the billions that are dispensed, the wealthy never seem to lose any of their money and nothing see...