The world we exist in is meant for the sustenance and evolution of innumerable living beings. Although to live, all we need is a minimal set of resources, individuals to businessmen, politicians to so-called god-men, hoard more than their fair share of resources of the planet.
Hoarded wealth is nothing but stolen wealth, which otherwise may belong to millions of other living beings in nature. Can returning the wealth that belongs to others, what one has taken unrighteous possession of, become an act of charity?
We know that a sizable section of businessmen, industrialists, politicians and many others, earn through unlawful means (implies, by hurting fellow humans, other species beings, and the environment). Can disposal of such a wealth in the name of charity absolve the way in which the wealth was earned? Can hurt that is created and transferred from one place to another become an act of welfare with a sheer name change (charity)?
We have a murky world of power abusers, who in order to paint a noble image of themselves in the society, and to hold back the wealth that may dwindle as tax, invent social, humanitarian and even holistic and spiritual institutions. While there are some genuine individuals and institutions fighting for the rights of oppressed people, even for the rights of other beings and preserving the planet from environmental degradation, there are also bogus philanthropists and activists in the society hijacking these altruistic missions of noble souls for fulfilling their selfish aspirations. Goals distinguish these two categories of men. There are ones who shy away from the pages of history, there are others who splurge wealth to ink lies on the pages of history.
Indeed parting with excess wealth should be a normal process of unburdening oneself from the guilt of accepting more. Picturising it as a celebratory endeavor is nothing but a blatant propaganda to mask the crime. After notoriously earning wealth they seek their next stage of social evolution by flexing charity as a tool. Then they wear it as a crown and revel in the glory of supremacy it brings them. They see themselves as self-anointed gods to people living at their behest, seeking their mercy and hailing their glory. In reality, they are just maniacs made into legends, by paid pipers, who have been misleading common people from the time of literature to the present day media.
Then what else can be called a charity? "Real charity is not in disposing of excess wealth. It is in not creating excess wealth." There should be a conscious human effort to refrain from stealing the wealth of fellow humans and resources of the planet meant for other beings; not stealing them covertly and returning them with pride. So charity must stem from the root of every human activity, not sprinted at the end, proudly donating wealth callously and illegitimately earned.
Sometimes we ought to be judgemental for the welfare of the society. Hoarders and usurpers in the society are thieves, they are no philanthropists. One may seek a reasonable value for one’s productive labor, as an exchange measure of value for the benefits the individual transferred to fellow humans, but anything more received and held in one’s possession is nothing but stolen wealth.