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Re:The cult of the free must die by simonh on Thursday August 13, 2020 @07:27AM (#24142187)
Money is the ultimate fungible asset, any restricted funds going to development frees up money that would have gone to development otherwise to go to something else instead. The only way this works is if the restricted fund donations exceed what the dev investment would have been otherwise, then it starts making a difference.
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Re:The cult of the free must die by sukilot on Thursday August 13, 2020 @09:10AM (#24142944)
"This idea works better the more people do it" it the most milquetoast criticism ever.
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Re:The cult of the free must die by simonh on Thursday August 13, 2020 @06:04PM (#24150050)
It doesn’t work at all until a lot of people do it. Below a certain, fairly high threshold all the contributions achieve essentially nothing.
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