“I became a monophilanthropist over 20 years ago. I saw people in need, everywhere around me. People too miserable and poor to eat, or get health care. People without the basic necessities that make us human. I felt I had to do something, something that really mattered. After all, begging is hard work. That’s why I am always generous when I encounter people in need. I almost always carry a few thousand in cash, you have to be prepared.

If you really want to help them, you can’t just give them a fiver or a twenty. No sir. I like to fill their hand with five or six $100s, and at least a couple of those golden $500 bills. I don’t know why they always seem so confused when I do it. As if they didn’t realize that monopoly money is safer and more entertaining than real money, which, frankly, I need all I can get of. Not only that, if I was giving them real money they would only get like … what… three pennies each? Besides, with the entertainment factor built in, it’s like paying them twice.

Every man can make a difference. Especially with cartoon money.”

— an anonymous monophilanthropist