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Re:Facebook is misleading Indians with its full-page ads abo... by rdlecler1 on Saturday December 26, 2015 @07:18PM (#10795819)
Agree, donor based systems are non-sustainable. But tax based systems for public goods are. The Facebook initiative looks innocuous enough but Facebook is creating a dependency that could be very dangerous for the public good as the perceived marginal cost of other services is seen to be too high.

The Internet is a basic utility and public good. Monopoly usually doesn't seem to be a good model for these kinds of systems.

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Re:Facebook is misleading Indians with its full-page ads abo... by quadrangle on Sunday December 27, 2015 @08:12PM (#10799350)
FWIW, Snowdrift.coop is trying to create a donor-based system for public goods that is as close as one could get to being sustainable in the way tax-based systems are. A voluntary tax can never match an imposed tax, but a social pledge and organized system can make voluntary much more feasible than it is otherwise in the status quo…
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