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Dec 5, 2015
"That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing." --Simone de Beauvoir
The Joys of Giving Large
Jeff Kaufman and Julia Wise are a young couple living in Boston. Jeff is a software engineer at Google and Julia is a social worker. For the past few years they've been giving away nearly 60 percent of their after-tax income to charities working to reduce poverty and save lives in developing countries. ...That's a lot of money, and it sounds like a big sacrifice. But they insist that it isn't...