The Upside reflects on decades of giving away money – plus all the week’s reasons to be hopeful
When the historians of the future look back on the early 21st century, there will be no shortage of ways to label the epoch: the Age of Extinction; the Age of Anxiety; the Age of Fibbers and Self-Publicists; the Age of the Overcapitalised Newsletter.
But the more upbeat Upside historian may reach for a different epithet: the Age of Philanthropy. For one of the threads running through recent decades, as the rich have become richer and the poor more vulnerable, is the rise and rise of charitable giving.
