Yes but are my donations to you tax exempt? Can I get a rewards credit card to pay you off? There actually is a difference between “wanting money” and having your livelihood depend on donations to your non-profit foundation.
I do not think there is anything sinister going on at all here, but it is mistaken to think that someone who doesn’t nakedly solicit donations and does endorse other charities cannot be running a con (i.e. they have pretenses about the purpose and usage of the money). For some types of fish you can only catch some if you are willing to let most of them go.
One is the extent to which individual future donors are necessary.
The other is the divergence between any group’s goals and those of its members. A good analogy is heat dissipation: for any one member, one can’t predict his or her goals from the group’s goals, though in general one can generalize about group members and their goals.
Note that these are matters of extent and not type. Note also how much this is true for other things. :)
For future reference, all of my comments and posts are by someone who wants you to give me your money. Likewise for most people, I suspect.
Yes but are my donations to you tax exempt? Can I get a rewards credit card to pay you off? There actually is a difference between “wanting money” and having your livelihood depend on donations to your non-profit foundation.
I do not think there is anything sinister going on at all here, but it is mistaken to think that someone who doesn’t nakedly solicit donations and does endorse other charities cannot be running a con (i.e. they have pretenses about the purpose and usage of the money). For some types of fish you can only catch some if you are willing to let most of them go.
Great point.
I will add two levels of nuance.
One is the extent to which individual future donors are necessary.
The other is the divergence between any group’s goals and those of its members. A good analogy is heat dissipation: for any one member, one can’t predict his or her goals from the group’s goals, though in general one can generalize about group members and their goals.
Note that these are matters of extent and not type. Note also how much this is true for other things. :)