The real public service

Thomas Sowell wrote:

Those who have helped the poor the most have not been those who have gone around loudly expressing "compassion" for the poor, but those who found ways to make industry more productive and distribution more efficient, so that the poor of today can afford things that the affluent of yesterday could only dream about.

If you really want to be of service to others, then let them decide what is a service by whether they choose to spend their hard-earned money for it.

Thomas Sowell