{"id":7395,"date":"2018-06-18T20:46:39","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T20:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=7395"},"modified":"2018-06-18T20:46:39","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T20:46:39","slug":"larry-david-and-the-game-theory-of-anonymous-donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/18\/larry-david-and-the-game-theory-of-anonymous-donations\/","title":{"rendered":"Larry David and the Game Theory of Anonymous Donations"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>n a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode from 2007, Larry David and his wife Cheryl and their friends attend a ceremony to celebrate his public donation to the National Resources Defense Council, a non-profit environmental advocacy group. Little does he know that the actor Ted Danson, his arch-frenemy, also donated money, but anonymously. \u201cNow it looks like I just did mine for the credit as opposed to Mr. Wonderful Anonymous,\u201d David tells Cheryl. David feels upstaged, as if his public donation has been transformed from a generous gesture to an egotistical one. Cheryl says, about Danson, \u201cIsn\u2019t that great? He donated the whole wing. Didn\u2019t want anybody to know.\u201d \u201cI didn\u2019t need the world to know either!\u201d David says. \u201cNobody told me I could be \u2018anonymous\u2019 and tell people!\u201d He would have done it Danson\u2019s way, he says, but, realizing the contradiction, he fumes, \u201cYou can\u2019t have it halfway! You\u2019re either anonymous, or you\u2019re not.\u201d What Danson did, David concludes, is \u201cfake philanthropy and faux anonymity!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/nautil.us\/blog\/larry-david-and-the-game-theory-of-anonymous-donations\">Larry David and the Game Theory of Anonymous Donations<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>n a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode from 2007, Larry David and his wife Cheryl and their friends attend a ceremony to celebrate his public donation to the National Resources Defense Council, a non-profit environmental advocacy group. Little does he know that the actor Ted Danson, his arch-frenemy, also donated money, but anonymously. \u201cNow it looks &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/18\/larry-david-and-the-game-theory-of-anonymous-donations\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Larry David and the Game Theory of Anonymous Donations&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-angol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}