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...Have you thought about why do we do it? Why is there this huge splurge at the end of the year? Well, it's a bit of a puzzle. We don't do it with cash. Giving cash is very socially awkward. The exceptions are for parents to children, grandparents to grandchildren, aunts and uncles to nieces and nephews. It's O.K. for cash to flow from those of higher social status to those of lower social status, but [otherwise] it's just considered a tacky thing to do. Which makes the growth of gift certificates remarkable, because they...
...What if you don't give them holiday gifts? Well, I do give them holiday gifts, because they are people whose preferences I know a lot about. The problem arises in the situations where we have to give a gift, but we have no idea what the recipient wants. I'm not against giving gifts in the situations where we have a good idea what people want...
...says, "My in-laws would go insane if I didn't get them gifts"? Yes, that's the problem. So what do you do? There are a few possible answers. One answer is gift certificates or gift cards. Another solution that we see increasingly and that I advocate is giving gifts to charity. If you look at data, as people get richer, they give a higher fraction of their income to charity. So if you think that luxuries in that sense are things people would like to do, if only they had more money, then holiday giving - giving someone...
...Unlike the majority of grant organizations, candidates for the Awesome Foundation fund must only complete a brief online application. The form requires applicants to describe their idea; they are encouraged to not feel any pressure to spin their proposal in a humanitarian light.“We want to give people the freedom to say hey, this is just something really awesome we want to do,” says trustee Tim R. Hwang ’08. “They don’t have to hide from us because they think their idea is just really interesting...
While this season may not give the young squad an opportunity to advance to nationals as a group, the team is looking to sneak up on people at NCAA Regionals...