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As a concept this is a good idea and can be applied to righting other "wrongs". For example there have always been companies that will audit utility bills for
by larrys 12y ago
As a concept this is a good idea and can be applied to righting other "wrongs".
For example there have always been companies that will audit utility bills for companies (and possibly individuals) but they are not widely known to the general public.
If you make it easy for people they would almost certainly take a snap of their utility bill and let someone else do the work in exchange for a cut of the refund.
For one thing the company doing the work knows the lay of the land. They know exactly what to look for and aren't going to spin their wheels. They don't have to spend time learning.
But there is another dynamic going on here as well. Similar in a way to why people do garage sales when the net revenue in many cases doesn't exceed the effort. The reason is they'd rather get $2.00 or even .50c for something rather than throwing it out. It's not about the money in other words. (Likewise you'd rather give away for free to someone rather than throwing out because to your brain that feels like karma..)
With this type of service better that someone takes up your cause and allows you to feel that you did something rather than feel like a, for lack of a better way to put it, a schmuck who did nothing.
I can see a wide range of possibilities for these "justice" or even "advocate" as a service ideas.
- icelancer 12y agoDefinitely, you hit the nail on the head. These services are usually spearheaded by people who can make a fair bit of money, but probably not as much if they turned their efforts towards other things. But they get great satisfaction by solving a real problem - government stupidity - and that's worth a lot. Actually that explains why I am no longer a data scientist and why I work in sports science now, making 40% of my previous salary.