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Perhaps the inherited altruistic behavior is only exhibited within ones tribe. So the rich will help each other, the poor will help each other, but the rich will only help the poor when they feel some sort of commonality. Since we only recognize altruism as charity when the recipient is poor, it follows that the poor are more charitable.


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