> If we do these things now, in a few short years we could be in a position to do everything we are doing now, while living off of the endowment interest, and w

> If we do these things now, in a few short years we could be in a position to do everything we are doing now, while living off of the endowment interest, and would have no need for further fundraising. Or we could keep fundraising, using the donations to do many new and useful things, knowing that whatever we do there is a guaranteed income stream from the endowment that will keep the servers running indefinitely. This is probably the best point in the entire essay, if they reduced spending funding would essentially become obsolete. Kind of clashes with the begging banners which have made me donate to WMF the last couple of years.