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The statue was crowdfunded From Wikipedia: > Publisher Joseph Pulitzer, of the New York World, started a drive for donations to finish the project and attract

The statue was crowdfunded From Wikipedia: > Publisher Joseph Pulitzer, of the New York World, started a drive for donations to finish the project and attracted more than 120,000 contributors, most of whom gave less than a dollar (equivalent to $30 in 2021)

silisili 4y ago
AIUI, the fundraising was for the pedestal, not the statue itself.
- testplzignore 4y ago
  A classic scam. Free statue, just pay shipping and pedestaling.
  - labster 4y ago
    Sometimes they don’t even send the monument and you’re just stuck with a random plinth. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zócalo https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zócalo
    - schiffern 4y ago
      TIL the etymological origin of "The Zócalo" in Babylon 5. https://babylon5.fandom.com/wiki/Zócalo https://babylon5.fandom.com/wiki/Zócalo
  - dylan604 4y ago
    We'll continue to ship you a new one each month until you finally remember to jump through the hoops, er, call our operators who are standing by to cancel
soperj 4y ago
The statue itself was as well, just in France. >Initially focused on the elites, the Union was successful in raising funds from across French society. Schoolchildren and ordinary citizens gave, as did 181 French municipalities.
EntrePrescott 4y ago
The Pulitzer fundraiser wasn't for the statue but for the pedestal on which it was to be placed. The statue was a gift of the people of France. That being said, crowdfunding campaigns were also a part of the the fundraising for the statue (that is, in France), together with a wide mix of other sources: state money, cities, chambers of commerce, and several other groups, huge donations by companies, banquet events, operas and other spectacles, merchandising, lottery etc.
- cultofmetatron 4y ago
  > The statue was a gift of the people of France. with "reparations" from the people of haiti
  - selimthegrim 4y ago
    That’s what the broken chains on the bottom are for
  - cultofmetatron 4y ago
    [flagged]

silisili 4y ago

AIUI, the fundraising was for the pedestal, not the statue itself.

testplzignore 4y ago
A classic scam. Free statue, just pay shipping and pedestaling.
- labster 4y ago
  Sometimes they don’t even send the monument and you’re just stuck with a random plinth. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zócalo https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zócalo
  - schiffern 4y ago
    TIL the etymological origin of "The Zócalo" in Babylon 5. https://babylon5.fandom.com/wiki/Zócalo https://babylon5.fandom.com/wiki/Zócalo
- dylan604 4y ago
  We'll continue to ship you a new one each month until you finally remember to jump through the hoops, er, call our operators who are standing by to cancel

soperj 4y ago

The statue itself was as well, just in France. >Initially focused on the elites, the Union was successful in raising funds from across French society. Schoolchildren and ordinary citizens gave, as did 181 French municipalities.

EntrePrescott 4y ago

The Pulitzer fundraiser wasn't for the statue but for the pedestal on which it was to be placed. The statue was a gift of the people of France. That being said, crowdfunding campaigns were also a part of the the fundraising for the statue (that is, in France), together with a wide mix of other sources: state money, cities, chambers of commerce, and several other groups, huge donations by companies, banquet events, operas and other spectacles, merchandising, lottery etc.

cultofmetatron 4y ago
> The statue was a gift of the people of France. with "reparations" from the people of haiti
- selimthegrim 4y ago
  That’s what the broken chains on the bottom are for
- cultofmetatron 4y ago
  [flagged]