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DeVliegendeHollander comments on Happiness and Goodness as Universal Terminal Virtues - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: [deleted] 28 April 2015 12:44:26PM 1 point [-]

Not just surplus, there are empirical records of poor people in rich soceties donating more to charity than rich people in rich soceties. I think there is also something going on with the whole of society as such, not just people's personal feelings of surplus or not.