Who Deserves Our Help: The Criteria We Should Use

For all the words the article spews, it mostly goes nowhere. The topic, though, has legs: who deserves your help? Anyone who’s actually watched how Chinese social exchanges work will tell you the same thing—we’ve spent centuries performing “gratitude and repayment.” Beneath every favor is an expectation of return. That’s the underlying script. So whether you’re the one asking or the one offering, don’t forget to recognize the debt.

Who deserves your help—and how to keep the favors flowing?