re: Giving can be selfish...
Try as I might, I haven't been able to think of any meaningful response. I guess trashing Buffet and Gates and then denying that they're "true" capitalists is a very roundabout way of defending capitalism, but it seems ridiculously convoluted. Why deny that those two won the game of capitalism by being good at it? Do you really mean to say that capitalism rewards corruption? Did Enron and Worldcom fail to succeed as well only because they got caught? No matter how I try to slice it, you're somehow casting aspersions on capitalism at the same time you seem to be trying to defend it, and that just doesn't compute. Not from an economic royalist like you.