I think that nearly *all* GoFundMe campaigns are tacky
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Anonymous
+1,000 |
Anonymous
FFS. You're surrounded by people who were veery premature everyday. You just can't tell them apart from anyone else. |
Anonymous
Asthma and ADHD? Let them die then. |
Anonymous
Strawman. |
Anonymous
I came here to say exactly this. |
Anonymous
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I think a lot of GoFundMes are weird because it's this weird cross between charity and "start-up funding". Some situations are clearly one or the other:
Charity -- a family has suffered a medical catastrophe and cannot afford their rent, so start a GoFundMe to cover the next few months of rent until they can figure out what to do. This is straightforward and sadly sometimes a person's only option. Even if you don't donate to these, I don't quite understand resenting them, especially if they are clear about how much they need and don't accept funds over that amount. Start-up funding -- person has a good idea for a toy, made a prototype and created a business plan, and is looking for seed funding. Usually they have concrete business plans or similar, but it's a business that is too small for a bank loan or VC funding, or alternatively might be a non-profit and this is their first foray into fundraising. If you donate, you're guaranteed something in return (a free product once manufactured, or some kind of prize/thank you like a gift card. Again, whether you donate or not, this seems fine and straightforward. I donated to one for a friend of mine who started a theater company and needed seed funding to get it off the ground. I have lifetime backstage "VIP passes" to all their shows. It's fun being part of the ground floor of something like that. But what happens is people twist situations that don't really fit either of these. So they try to raise money for a family whose house burned down, but it's a middle class family and they are all fine plus are getting insurance money -- they don't actually need charity. Or they are asking for start-up funding but it's extremely vague, like instead of someone with a business plan starting a theater company, it's someone just saying "help fund my first year in LA for auditions to achieve my Hollywood dreams." Uh, no thank you but best of luck -- please just get a job as a cater-waiter or temping or as a barista like everyone else who does this. I once got asked to donate to a GoFundMe for a well-known writer with a best-selling book who also regularly runs very expensive writing seminars (like way at the far end of expensive for the kind of seminar she's selling), and the explanation was that she has a compulsive spending problem. What? Why would I donate money to someone who is cash strapped to her compulsive spending problem? So she can blow it on 72 pairs of sunglasses? If she was destitute and needed money for a rehab program, that would be different, but this person wanted money to pay her rent because she spent all her money from her writing/teaching jobs on clothes. It's probably the only time I've actually been mad at a GoFundMe. |
Anonymous
How so? |
Anonymous
Someone with Autism or ADHD is a future taxpayer. |
Anonymous
According to the link the PP provided, it's one of the main risks of early prematurity. The PP was arguing that we should let them die because of the risks listed in the link, which included ADHD and asthma. Not a strawman at all. |
Anonymous
Okay well how about the people who want to pay for micro preemies pay into one health insurance pool and those of us who don't can pay into a different health insurance pool. Same for crazy expensive end of life care and cancer treatments that prolong someone's life by a month or two while making them very very sick. I'd like to be in the shared risk pool that DOESN'T pay for those things (and won't cover them for me or my loved ones either.) |
Anonymous
Kickstarter is usually where you get a product out of it, not go fund me. |
Anonymous
Be thankful you don't have health issue. It could be you one day. I'm on expensive medications. What should I do, just suffer? |
Anonymous
Re-read what you just callously wrote. A man lost his wife and two of his kids after a plane crashed in their home. I didn’t donate, but would not begrudge him the money. And it was years before those settlements. I swear some of y’all look for misery. |
Anonymous
If they were monitored properly with proof that money donated goes to intended recipients for the causes described then would be OK with it . But HFM is not adequately regulated or monitored and there is a lot of abuse/ exploitation. |
Anonymous
That's funny, I'm exactly the opposite. I'll contribute to shelter/ foster/ homeless pet ones, but never children. People can take care of their own children. |