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Question by Curtis Edward Clark: I hate the phrase “giving back”. Do not you think it is merely act of “giving”?
Folks like Haley Barry and other celebrities, and even we regular people who do a lot of charitable work, are said to be “giving back”. I didn’t take something. I don’t think Halley Barry took something except what she deserved–a massive paycheck and fame, for a job nicely done.
You do not have to agree with me. I just want to hear all the different opinions on this.
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Answer by Stephen
You misunderstand the phrase, I believe.
Giving back implies giving back to the community. Since we are profitable members of society, we ought to do our very best to help other individuals less fortunate. It is not ‘because I earn income, I must give funds away’. It is more ‘Because I have been produced effective, I should give some of that succcess to others’. It is kinda hard to explain quickly, this link explains it far better :
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Jack P Feb 11 2012 - 9:16 pm
If the people who use the phrase believe it’s tipping their hats to the concept that they couldn’t have done whatever they did without some generous contributions by others, they’re probably in the best position to judge.
If you don’t believe you took anything nobody’s insisting you use the phrase.
keef20032006 Feb 11 2012 - 9:48 pm
Some people just take and never give at all.
I think the sentiment is that people who have had good fortune in life give something back.
Some people work tirelessly for causes and don’t charge for there time.
The giving back is kind of way of helping continue the process of progress.
With out it progress would have a setback.
I know people who learned the hard way so think everyone should.
Spiritualseeker Feb 11 2012 - 10:31 pm
Maybe, what they mean is that we can give only what we had quite ‘originally’…. Perhaps, they are trying to also help us in reminding ourselves that we came empty handed, and are very sure to go the same way. Why not give back a little while we can, and get the joy, which perhaps would remain ever ours.
Jess Rabbit Feb 11 2012 - 10:35 pm
NO, I think “Giving Back” is the right phrase. It implies “Gratitude”. Gratitude
to life, fans, the fates, God if you believe, but gratitude for the gift of what ever talent, luck , or good fortune “the giver” has experienced.
Halley Barry{and I am a fan} doesn’t deserve a big paycheck or fame, and she knows and admits that. She has gratitude for her good fortune. There are other people who are just as good looking
and can act just as well, who will never be able to get as far as she has. She knows that too.
So she gives back in recognition of her success, because she wants to be of some use to the world
besides as an actress and celebrity
I've been waiting all along~ Feb 11 2012 - 10:42 pm
There are rich, there are poor. The rich have too much and the poor too little. Do you see how it works? It’s like the rich took most of the things for themselves, and now they’re only returning a tiny part of it to the poor.
This question goes around and around. I liked the others’ opinions too. Maybe all they mean is that the community supported them to become who they are and now they’re giving some money back for the less fortunate.
Dunno.
Gato Feb 11 2012 - 11:16 pm
To put it simply using your chosen celebrity: Halle Berry was “given” opportunities to make that big paycheck. She was “given” money because people paid to see her movies, buy the products she endorses, see her in magazines, admire her beauty and acting talent. No one had to give her those things, they chose to. It’s a give/take arrangement on all sides, but she might feel grateful for the prizes she’s won/earned, and wants to “give back” to those who haven’t been able to get the opportunities she has been fortunate to get. Some of those opportunities she got by virtue of simply having been born beautiful, or because of the talent she may have been born with, but it was nurtured due to help from others.
jones Feb 11 2012 - 11:18 pm
I think the word ‘back’ in ‘giving back’ is superflous. In one sense it implies returning what was originally someone else’s. Still the phrase is, if not lapidary, ingrained in our social speech, and we all seem to have at least a tacit understanding of what it meant by it. I laud anyone’s generosity, but if your question is hinting that giving back and giving in this context are one and the same I think they are. ‘Back’ also implies that the new recipient did somehow give to the donor and now the donor is acknowledging that by his/her donation even if these gifts are not in-kind. I guess the giving from the celebrity is simply to say: thanks for making me rich and famous, I appreciate it, and this is how I demonstrate that.
Not an especially elegant answer but I still think ‘back’ is unneeded.