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Re: Big bad greedy US capitalists exploiting the world
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 21 Sep 2001 11:09:56 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Ross Crawford writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > NOT.
> >
> > http://libertyunites.org/about_alp.adp
> >
> > No one here really has remarked on this much, but Yahoo and Amazon are
> > powering the donation machines behind the icons that a lot of sites
> > (including the ones I control) are displaying.
> >
> > This org was mentioned in the President's speech just now. I'm not sure but
> > what that may be the first time a URL was mentioned in an address to a joint
> > session of Congress.
>
> Congratulations people! I donated to Red Cross, which doesn't look like it's
> part of this organisation, but the more the better!
How did you do that? Directly? Too bad. You *missed* the point.
The point is that you cost the Red Cross more (as a percentage of your
donation) if you donate directly than if you donate via Yahoo or Amazon or
MSN... every donation takes some finite amount of effort to collect and
track. It may be small, but it is there and it DOES eat into the amount of
money remaining.
Donating via one of these other channels means more of your money goes to
the Red Cross (if that is the org you choose it to go to) because it's
aggregated with other donations, thus way reducing the overhead. 100% of the
donation goes to the org, so they only have to track one BIG lump.
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> However I think it's a bit of a leap to imply this proves Big bad greedy US
> capitalists are *not* exploiting the world. 8?)
Nobody said they weren't in general. They just aren't in this particular case.
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