shanen's Journal: Don't try to borrow money from rms

In response to https://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/09/04/0455250/richard-stallman-online-publishers-should-let-readers-pay-anonymously

I actually admire rms and regard him as a great man, but probably for smaller values of "great". In particular, he has little conception of money and his financial models have never demonstrated anything approaching viability or critical mass.

In years past I actually ran a few alternative financial models past him. He did ask an extremely perceptive question in one exchange. The question led me to a significant improvement in a financial model, but mostly he convinced me that he never has understood money, and probably never will. He wouldn't even be interested in whether or not he helped out, but he lives in a kind of money-free fantasy land, and I think his latest suggestion is just more evidence. Yes, he sees part of the problem, but his idea of anonymity as the solution is completely half-baked. If someone is motivated to donate, why would that motivation be affected by anonymity?

What the online media needs is a focus on SOLUTIONS. How many of us are sick and tired of reading about problems without solutions, and the media should earn a kind of tithe for helping to SOLVE the problems. The articles should be followed by links to some solution projects, and if enough readers (or viewers of a video) agree to support a project, then it would get funded, and the website would get a percentage for (1) publicizing the problem, (2) bringing donors to the solution project, and (3) evaluating the results and reporting them.

The details don't really matter to me, so in that sense I might be as bad as rms. You can call it an agent's fee if you prefer, though before that discussion with rms I mostly called it RACS (for Reverse Auction Charity Shares) and at some point afterwards I favored the idea of a charity share brokerage. DAUPR.

You have little conception of privacy

[fustakrakich]

You are "tralling" again, and it shows

Public masterbation of 1673220

[shanen]

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:-) Your sexual obsessions are quite intriguing. A strange bird you are...

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:-) And we know what you are dreaming of... You're cravings are laid bare for all to see, so lusty! You really don't know how to "trall" that well, do you? The good ones know how to draw a crowd. Your shtick just doesn't quite cut it. It's so, weak, kinda boring, tedious, monotonous, dull. If you didn't respond to me, I'd fall asleep too. Your quest for blind affirmation will come up dry here. This is not the safe space you're looking for. I'm left wondering if you're this weird and lonely in real life. I h

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:-) dream a little dream of me...

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:-) You must be really getting your rocks off...

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:-)

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:-) I know what you're thinkiiiing...

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:-) you're a mean machine man... penny for your thought?

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:-) You can type in your sleep? That's pretty cool! You just like to see the word "masturbation" fill up your comments page. Tell me, am I the only one that thinks you're weird?

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:-) Auto-responder, eh? I'll have to try one of those.

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:-)^2

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:-)^3 Weeee! This is fun!

you poor pitiful soul

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To anybody else reading this, is this guy as wierd in meatspace as he is here?

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:-) Like all "tralls" you shall have last word. See ya on the flip flop..

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