{"text":"[I]f you don't feel or look rich, you don't necessarily feel the same sense of obligation that a traditional rich person does or should: Noblesse oblige is, after all, dependent on a classical idea of who is and is not the nobility. As that starts to fall away, obligation--to culture, to the future, to each other--begins to disappear too.","author":"Ellen Cushing","tags":["charity","class","culture","future","noblesse-oblige","obligation","philanthropy","wealth"],"id":51128,"author_id":"Ellen+Cushing"}