Giving Compass' Take:

• Laura Traldi at Medium writes about selfishness in our society and why people are increasingly lacking altruism. 

• How can donors help inspire a more altruistic outlook? How can we drive and entice more people to give? 

• Learn why those with means should increase giving during the coronavirus pandemic.

Red eyes and a ghostly look, the train conductor wanders among the wagons waiting for the police. We are a few miles from Milan and he has just run over a 16 years old boy who challenged fate by fooling around on the tracks. The train driver exited his cabin, saw the boy. What happened is not his fault but it’s difficult not to feel lost when you have just killed someone. The last thing this poor man needs is the anger of the passengers. Yet here it comes: «When do we leave? We’ve been here for two hours, you’re incompetent». Outside, a few feet away, a mother cries over her dead son’s body in the dark.

It’s not just the stories of migrants left for days (weeks!) on boats without being able to get on Italian soil. Not those of city councils banning black dolls, or preventing non-Italians kids to access school canteens. Or the communication that the government will no longer fund intercultural artistic projects.

Read the full article about selfishness in society by Laura Traldi at Medium.