undefined

points

[-]

>My point is that all it takes is a mental shift from a small number of people. This isn't some "we need huge collaboration therefore it'll never happen" type of thing, this is "I can take action and have meaningful impact today" type of thing.

Always good to promote these apparent small wins in case the catch on. Do suspect the shift to make, instead of hoping our psychology changes en masse:

Change the model to one of the freebie models that works for high-income earners. High-income earners are OK to make purchases of tangible things where they're promised good is done for the world. Then they enjoy their music and wine (at the gala), or tote bag or whatnot.

We gonna be invited to the first Text Editor Gala?! Maybe not. 50/50 raffle supporting a text editor dev, though, maybe... (ugh a little gambley)

tl;dr give the self-wealth-protecting psychology of the wealthy an out to help them justify their good deed, like NPR sponsor gifts

(to execute - cut some deals with concert venues, restaurants, handmade good purveyors... obtain discounts... then work with developers to set up bespoke relevant rewards for given donation tiers. first part of this plan could be a decent task for the non-developers who wanna contribute to OSS)

by godelski36 minutes ago|

parent|

[-]

I mean whatever it takes. But these days we're fighting a huge attention and disinformation campaign that is trying to teach you that you can't make any change and overload you with a million problems. I hope it breaks soon. I hope it can't continue forever. The world has always changed, and will continue to, because of the actions of a few. A small cog in a big machine can still take down the entire machine. You don't have to do everything, but you should do something. Even if it is something small. Small to you is often big to those being helped.