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| * The Orlowski piece is pretty spot on. Regardless of how much you may support a social or political cause, readers who support it too should donate to ''that cause''. What people are donating to here is ''this cause'', with the reasonable expectation this is what their money will be used for. Even paying zillion dollar golden parachutes for high level employees can at least ''somehow'' be connected back to the project, even if it's not the most responsible use of funds.{{pb}}This right here, increased access to free knowledge, is supposed to be the social justice cause. Many people don't have access to a library. Even in developed parts of the world like the US, we've got people banning books and even banning libraries. So who fills that gap? I dunno, probably the first friggin thing that shows up when you google basically anything. ]] 10:56, 31 August 2023 (UTC) | * The Orlowski piece is pretty spot on. Regardless of how much you may support a social or political cause, readers who support it too should donate to ''that cause''. What people are donating to here is ''this cause'', with the reasonable expectation this is what their money will be used for. Even paying zillion dollar golden parachutes for high level employees can at least ''somehow'' be connected back to the project, even if it's not the most responsible use of funds.{{pb}}This right here, increased access to free knowledge, is supposed to be the social justice cause. Many people don't have access to a library. Even in developed parts of the world like the US, we've got people banning books and even banning libraries. So who fills that gap? I dunno, probably the first friggin thing that shows up when you google basically anything. ]] 10:56, 31 August 2023 (UTC) | ||
| : This is one of the reasons why I advise people to not give money to the WMF anymore. They are better off donating time by editing any of the projects. However, I disagree with Orlowski about contributors being paid; that's a terrible idea. ] (]) 08:42, 2 September 2023 (UTC) | |||
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- The Orlowski piece is pretty spot on. Regardless of how much you may support a social or political cause, readers who support it too should donate to that cause. What people are donating to here is this cause, with the reasonable expectation this is what their money will be used for. Even paying zillion dollar golden parachutes for high level employees can at least somehow be connected back to the project, even if it's not the most responsible use of funds.This right here, increased access to free knowledge, is supposed to be the social justice cause. Many people don't have access to a library. Even in developed parts of the world like the US, we've got people banning books and even banning libraries. So who fills that gap? I dunno, probably the first friggin thing that shows up when you google basically anything. GMG 10:56, 31 August 2023 (UTC)
- This is one of the reasons why I advise people to not give money to the WMF anymore. They are better off donating time by editing any of the projects. However, I disagree with Orlowski about contributors being paid; that's a terrible idea. Ciridae (talk) 08:42, 2 September 2023 (UTC)