My good friend Leo Tolstoy (author of 'War and Peace' and some other stuff) actually did walk among the slums of tsarist Russia giving away money. He came to rue his efforts, noting it a waste. "They blew it on booze or other frivolities" he griped, even after he tried to counsel them on what to do with it. Then they wanted more, from him. State welfare works to greater/lesser degrees, but an individual's benevolence is greeted in much the same manner as the overturning of an armored truck full of money. It only gets looted.
