<The poorest players chose to burn more of the winnings of the wealthiest, but big winners also burned other players, in their case indiscriminately. The researchers speculate that winners may have chosen to burn others as a way of maintaining their rank: They wanted to be first more than they wanted to maximize their cash holdings.

And that explains a lot about capitalism, the politics of greed.

When faced with this behavior, socialism looks a lot more like self-defense: the rich, apparently not satisfied with merely being rich, want to stay richer than other people by actively, maliciously making them poorer. Better to attempt to level the playing field than to allow the rich to put themselves on top of the Great Pyramid using their already greater resources.

If you go along with this research, philanthopists are all atypical at best and are probably looneys.

Regards--
Mary Anne