The program asked for a suggested donation of $2 per 15 minutes of Wi-Fi, donated via PayPal, but had no official going rate (though you had to pay something). The money, once collected, would go directly to the person manning the 4G hotspot...
...But the marketing gimmick itself requires something else: recognition of another human being, one who is suffering. Whereas plenty of people seemed to think that was dehumanizing, it’s actually kind of the opposite: it’s literally humanizing. Thinking about and looking at the homeless is hard.
Interesting, that. Might've been better if they'd gotten an hourly wage plus the donation...but it was something better than nothing from the POV of those getting the money for that work at the time. Something to file away for future projects to improve upon.
I'm in favor of a more direct approach, where the wealth of billionaires is handed to the poor and disenfranchised; keeping back a small amount to pay for a Delta Heavy to launch the billionaire into a photosphere-intersecting solar orbit.
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Date: 2021-07-20 03:36 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2021-07-20 03:56 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2021-07-20 05:51 am (UTC)Rodgers' called, they are going to bill you for the 5G.
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Date: 2021-07-20 02:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2021-07-20 05:54 pm (UTC)The ultimate gig economy horror.
Oh wait. Someone did try this.
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Date: 2021-07-20 06:34 pm (UTC)The program asked for a suggested donation of $2 per 15 minutes of Wi-Fi, donated via PayPal, but had no official going rate (though you had to pay something). The money, once collected, would go directly to the person manning the 4G hotspot...
...But the marketing gimmick itself requires something else: recognition of another human being, one who is suffering. Whereas plenty of people seemed to think that was dehumanizing, it’s actually kind of the opposite: it’s literally humanizing. Thinking about and looking at the homeless is hard.
Interesting, that. Might've been better if they'd gotten an hourly wage plus the donation...but it was something better than nothing from the POV of those getting the money for that work at the time. Something to file away for future projects to improve upon.
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Date: 2021-07-20 06:39 pm (UTC)I'm in favor of a more direct approach, where the wealth of billionaires is handed to the poor and disenfranchised; keeping back a small amount to pay for a Delta Heavy to launch the billionaire into a photosphere-intersecting solar orbit.
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Date: 2021-07-20 06:43 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2021-07-20 12:30 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2021-07-20 02:21 pm (UTC)Meanwhile, all I got (which is a documented side effect, alas,) was a reboot of my period (which I thought I had finally aged out of.) Whoo.
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Date: 2021-07-21 04:28 am (UTC)