"We who are well off should be willing to share more of what we have with poor people not for the poor people's sake but for our own; i.e., we should share what we have in order to become less narrow and frightened and lonely and self-centered people. No one ever seems willing to acknowledge aloud the thorough-going self-interest that underlies all impulses toward economic equality." - David Foster Wallace in "Authority and American usage" from Consider the lobster and other essays