gifting sums of money to someone to solve their problems can significantly complicate relationships, have you tried it? Unless theyre a close intimate that is genuinely able to accept a gift you'll end up with someone who feels indebted to you or the opposite, sees you as a bank account or a fallback for next time they're in need. I've seen it between parents and children, between friends, between strangers, debt complicates things. That's what I like about money, it's used to settle debt so you don't owe anything to anyone.
And people hate it when somebody buys a run down building in a poor neighborhood and "invests" in it because now you're making it unaffordable
Edit: I'll give you "pay your employees more", that's a fairly uncomplicated way to distribute windfall wealth, but now you've just passed the buck to them! ;)
>gifting sums of money to someone to solve their problems can significantly complicate relationships
Maybe. If you have a relationship. I was thinking more along the lines of listening to someone's story and them finding a check from a mysterious benefactor in the mail sometime later.
>And people hate it when somebody buys a run down building in a poor neighborhood and "invests" in it because now you're making it unaffordable
So don't do that. There are other ways to invest in communities. "Upgrading" housing is couched as the primary way to do so really only because it's a good way to make money (and influence what some people would view as desirable demographic changes).
And people hate it when somebody buys a run down building in a poor neighborhood and "invests" in it because now you're making it unaffordable
Edit: I'll give you "pay your employees more", that's a fairly uncomplicated way to distribute windfall wealth, but now you've just passed the buck to them! ;)