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These two could both be explained by rich people giving more than poor people. Is that the case?
We hardly need this experiment to know that people don't tend to arbitrarily give each other money for no particular reason - when was the last time you received an anonymous envelope full of cash in the mail?
I know several people who went through phases of leaving little "prizes" sprinkled around the world in the hopes that random strangers would discover them, collect the prizes, and think better of the world for this reason. I have never personally received anonymous cash in the mail, but it wouldn't entirely surprise me if it happened some day.
It seems more likely if people have some way of getting your mailing address without directly asking for it, but I can understand that this would quite possibly have negative consequences too >.>