As someone who isn’t really in a position to donate much at all, and who feels rather silly about the small amount I could possibly give, and what a tiny drop that is compared the bucket this post is sketching...
I uh … sat down and did some simple math. If everyone who ever votes (>12M) donates $10 then you’d have >$120 million covered. If we follow bullshit statistics of internet activity, where it’s said 99% of all content is generated by 1% of all people, then this heuristic would get us $1.2M from people paying this one time “subscription” fee. Now I also feel, based on intuition and ass-numbers, that LW folk have a better ratio than that, so let’s multiply by 2 and then we could get a $2.4 million subscriber fee together from small donations.
Now on the pure power of typical mind … I personally like people knowing when I do a nice thing—even a stupidly small thing.
So I’m commenting about it.
I find this embarrassing, and I’m working through the embarrassment to make it easier for others to farm this nutrient too and just normalize it in case that helps with getting a critical mass of small donations of the $10 variety.
Basically my point to readers is: ‘Everyone’ paying a one-time $10 subscription fee would solve the problem.
The trick is mostly to help each other generate the activation energy to do this thing. If it helps to post, high five, or wave about it, please do! Visibility of small donations may help activation energy and get critical mass! Group action is awesome. Using your natural reward centers about it is great! <3 Hi :D Wanna join? _
As someone who isn’t really in a position to donate much at all, and who feels rather silly about the small amount I could possibly give, and what a tiny drop that is compared the bucket this post is sketching...
I uh … sat down and did some simple math. If everyone who ever votes (>12M) donates $10 then you’d have >$120 million covered. If we follow bullshit statistics of internet activity, where it’s said 99% of all content is generated by 1% of all people, then this heuristic would get us $1.2M from people paying this one time “subscription” fee. Now I also feel, based on intuition and ass-numbers, that LW folk have a better ratio than that, so let’s multiply by 2 and then we could get a $2.4 million subscriber fee together from small donations.
Now on the pure power of typical mind … I personally like people knowing when I do a nice thing—even a stupidly small thing.
So I’m commenting about it.
I find this embarrassing, and I’m working through the embarrassment to make it easier for others to farm this nutrient too and just normalize it in case that helps with getting a critical mass of small donations of the $10 variety.
Basically my point to readers is: ‘Everyone’ paying a one-time $10 subscription fee would solve the problem.
The trick is mostly to help each other generate the activation energy to do this thing. If it helps to post, high five, or wave about it, please do! Visibility of small donations may help activation energy and get critical mass! Group action is awesome. Using your natural reward centers about it is great! <3 Hi :D Wanna join? _
Read your comment, donated 10$.