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I didn’t realize at the time but this was a flaw of character. How can anyone expect to keep relationships alive if they don’t pay attention to detail? This trait indicates that you’re dealing with a person who’s only interested in their own comfort. They may have lofty goals, but they think this gives them the right to be self-centered.,Almost 130 years later, Americans still donate hundreds of billions of dollars to charities each year — $450 billion in 2019, according to the Giving USA Foundation. But almsgiving and mutual aid never disappeared, particularly in Black and diasporic communities long denied care and support from America’s institutions.,“Part of growing up in a family of wealth is that you get educated financially to a level most people don’t,” he added. “And one thing I know is that charities and philanthropy, in general, are incredibly inefficient.”,In the next plot, I will take the first 500 data from the dataset to plot, assuming that the whole dataset is organized randomly. I will add one more twist to it. I will add another variable. That is age. Because age can have an effect on blood pressure. Here I will encircle the data where age is more than 40. Here is the code,# Select data where age is more than 40 df_encircle = df2.loc[(df2['RIDAGEYR'] > 40), :].dropna() # Drawing a polygon surrounding vertices encircle(df_encircle.BPXDI1, df_encircle.BPXSY1, ec='k', fc='gold', alpha=0.1) encircle(df_encircle.BPXDI1, df_encircle.BPXSY1, ec='firebrick', fc='none', linewidth=1.5),def encircle(x,y, ax=None, **kw): if not ax: ax=plt.gca() p = np.c_[x,y] hull = ConvexHull(p) poly = plt.Polygon(p[hull.vertices,:], **kw) ax.add_patch(poly),“I don’t know if I went about doing it the right way,” said Jake, reflecting back on his spring Cash App spree. “But I felt like a traditional charitable avenue wouldn’t be fast enough or efficient enough, and I didn’t know if it was going to help the people I wanted to help.”,According to data from Apptopia, a firm that tracks mobile services, new downloads of payment apps including Venmo, PayPal, Cash App, and Zelle grew 94% between March and October. And while analysts attribute some of that growth to larger changes in banking behavior, even Venmo, among the largest of the P2P payment apps, noted a surge in giving so significant that the company planned a spring marketing stunt around it called #venmoitforward.,The movement toward direct giving could also threaten some parts of the charitable sector long-term, particularly given its current vulnerability. Americans’ trust in nonprofit organizations has been falling for years, and charitable giving almost always drops during economic crises.,Early charities aimed to “rationalize” the human inclination toward generosity, Soskis said, by weeding out fraud and duplication and channeling aid to only the most “deserving” individuals. Writing in 1889, at the dawn of the modern philanthropic movement, the uber-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie argued the rich should throw their money into the sea rather than donate to “the slothful, the drunken [and] the unworthy.”,But for the past 100 years, Americans have primarily funneled money to strangers through formal charities, foundations, and other nonprofit institutions, said Benjamin Soskis, a researcher and historian of philanthropy at the Urban Institute. These organizations developed in the United States in the second half of the 19th century, at a time when economic panics, the Civil War, and recurring waves of European immigration swept large numbers of itinerant poor into northeastern cities.,Charity is inherent in human nature — even young children will share with others who have less. But the way people give, and to whom, often shifts in moments of crisis. Most of the world’s major religious traditions preach the spiritual virtue of giving “alms” — direct, often unmediated donations — to anyone in need of them. As early as the first century A.D., the Christian St. Paul lectured believers in Greece that charity ranked first among the Christian virtues they could practice.,It’s impossible to say how much money Americans now give through direct digital donations such as these. Based on data that comes in part from Giving USA, Lucy Bernholz, the director of the Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford University, estimates that informal online giving now totals in the billions of dollars — surging to new heights this year, even as formal 501(c)3s fought to keep their doors open.,But direct digital giving comes with its own perils, both for donors and recipients: Scams are not uncommon on both sides, and the users most in need of direct help often don’t have the access or platform to attract it.,Many communities have also long embraced a type of collective, non-hierarchical, two-way giving dubbed “mutual aid” by the 19th-century Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin. When neighbors band together to raise money for an acquaintance who gets sick, or found a lending circle or benefit society, they are practicing a form of mutual aid — distinct from alms-giving, Kropotkin argued, because the horizontal structure of mutual aid grants the giver no spiritual or moral “superiority.”