That’s interesting, I’ll check it out! I’m actually not sure which category I fall into, most of my donations go to animal related causes, second place are to groups I feel affiliated with, so mostly artists and gay-ish people.
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snek_boi@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
There’s actually research on this. There are groups of people that donate more than others. There are two groups of people that really matter for this: people who have protection values and people who have democratic values.
People with protection values care about themselves and their people (their family, their clan, their tribe, their religion, their nation). People with democratic values care about humans in general, regardless of their religion, nationality, what family they come from, etc.
So, who donates more money? People with democratic values.
You can check out Christian Welzel’s Freedom Rising for more on this :)
python@lemmy.world 3 days ago
garbagebagel@lemmy.world 2 days ago
This is really cool, thank you. I’ve noticed things like this anecdotally but it’s interesting to see there are actual studies.