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>Sam's charity giving your own money away is charity, redirecting somebody else's money isn't a charity, it is management at best theft at worst
by VladRussian 15y ago
>Sam's charity
giving your own money away is charity, redirecting somebody else's money isn't a charity, it is management at best theft at worst
- marcamillion 15y agoSo all the charities setup that either a) give away money by a rich donor - e.g. Carnegie, etc. or b) request donations (e.g. for a major crisis) and allocate it how they see it fit, would be considered what?
- VladRussian 15y agoyou're misreading it - there is act of charity and there is charity organization.
- urbanjunkie 15y agoIt's clear that there's a difference between organisations setup to receive and manage charitable donations and something that is essentially part of the commons. Not sure if you genuinely misunderstood, or you're just being quite boringly pedantic
- FuzzyDunlop 15y agoNot to mention the fact that the Starbucks money, due to it being put through eBay of all things, will have eBay and PayPal fees deducted, and the final bid might not even come close to $600 because the nominal value of a card isn't exactly dictated by the amount put on it. So unless someone is nice enough to tie up $600 of their own money in coffee just to redress that balance, this Odio fella has just wasted it for the sake of what, self promotion? I'd say he did it remaining startlingly unaware of the potential consequences and didn't actually think anything through beyond taking the money. Finally, since he posted his code on github, how do we know other people didn't use it and take money themselves? And how much?