Re:Mother raising money through Kickstarter to send daughter...
by mercurial on Sunday March 24, 2013 @06:07PM
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It's a lie by omission. As a backer, you're missing a critical piece of information which would cause a lot of people not to fork over their cash. The only hint you get that mommy is not living from government handouts is that it's said she "sometimes has to hire programmers and developers for her work", and that she is a "business person", which might as well mean a freelance web developer struggling to make ends meet.
So what is little Mackenzie Wilson learning? How to achieve her goals "with assistance from other people"? Or that you can find plenty of suckers on the Internet if you pull on their heartstrings just enough?
Re:Mother raising money through Kickstarter to send daughter...
by mikeash on Sunday March 24, 2013 @06:10PM
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The default assumption now is that people are living off government handouts until proven otherwise? Huh?
Re:Mother raising money through Kickstarter to send daughter...
by mercurial on Sunday March 24, 2013 @06:17PM
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The default assumption is that, when you have to ask money from strangers to fund your kid's holidays, you're not flush with money. I used "government handouts" to drive the point home.
Re:Mother raising money through Kickstarter to send daughter...
by jcc80 on Sunday March 24, 2013 @06:45PM
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Everyone is focussed a bit too literally on the word "fraud" when it's more about the fact that a 9 yr old did not come up with this: http://i.imgur.com/F03oG3e.png. Which begs the question, how much money is mom going to pocket from this?
The 9 yr old is also not spamming celebs & women's groups on Twitter - http://i.imgur.com/b4l2fI2.png.
Personally, I think this could be great, if the parents are doing it properly. The daughter is learning how to achieve her goals with assistance from other people who give willingly, instead of mooching off mom and dad. A lot of children are lucky if they can manage to learn this lesson by the age of 18 (or later... I wasn't exactly an early bloomer here myself), and, managed well, this kid is going to have a good handle on it much faster than that.