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Re:Watsi (YC W13) and the Future of Patronage by capdiz on Wednesday March 27, 2013 @01:22AM (#5447939)
Thank you for pointing me to Kiva. Checking it out and its definitely something i could work on. Thanks again.
Re:Watsi (YC W13) and the Future of Patronage by rdl on Wednesday March 27, 2013 @04:19PM (#5451751)
The weird thing about Kiva is they "lie" as an efficiency optimization -- it's not direct payment from donor to the identified recipient, but to the organization which helped the recipient in the past. This isn't really worse from a moral perspective (and is actually more efficient!), but might make some donors unhappy. A Kiva which operated fully on the Watsi model of identifying/funding specific things in realtime would be popular with at least some existing Kiva donors.