Benefactors

We all want to be benefactors, that person who helps others out. But we also know that there is a responsibility with this. The beneficiary should be a person who truly needs help. No one wants people to mooch off of them, so those who benefit should do so by the direct choice of the benefactor.
A prodigal is someone who wastes what he should be investing until he has nothing left. There are numerous ways this happens, usually through the bad habit of seeking immediate pleasure. The only cure for prodigal behavior is the pain that comes with lack or maturity that comes from experience. A person who enables such a person and denies him the instruction of hard knocks, is also a prodigal. And so the cycle of having a society of prodigals becomes a pyramid scheme that works its way to the top. Of course prodigals shouldn't be confused with people who have a run of bad luck or need training in management. People in these two categories need help. These kind of people tend to give their benefactor honor. This is right and just. Prodigals feel entitled to help.
There is a type of tyrant called a Despot. He is a person who wants to look like a liberal benefactor really bad but he has no money of his own. A Despot will forcefully take from those who have earned and give to beneficiaries as though he was giving it out his own earnings. He wants everyone to love him but has taken his riches wrongfully. This has always been a despicable behavior. Any similarities to today's politicians?