Hood Life

[Cramulus]

Read this, then the next image I saw was this:




you crazy cresser you



to the piece, I like it.. it forces us to visualize that kind of radical altruism, however impossible it may be ... which in itself leads to some interesting questions

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

That was a really good piece.

[Placid Dingo]

Thanks, Nigel, Cram.

The thing is, I really don't know just how impossible this really is. I get the feeling in five years, something along these lines should be totally possible.

[Cramulus]

you think so?

I think that it doesn't present a good enough reward for the donor.

People give to charities because they like that warm tingle. They are helping out some starving kids somewhere. Or some cause they think is critical to fix the world.

Here, you don't actually make the choice to donate to the person in question, so you won't feel too much responsibility for that decision, hence less warm tingle

furthermore, the recipient might not be the most deserving person. I mean, imagine if you hear the little chirp which means you just donated ten bucks to somebody, and on the corner ahead of you, some tweaker or crack head is holding a blackberry and is dancing in the street. I think most rich people would probably turn off the app at that point.

[Suu]

But that's where the cultural difference issue comes into play. Obviously Japan is probably the best place to do this...but America? Fuck no. First you would have to convince the rich to even part with $10 if they bitch about paying taxes, and the odds of it going to some sort of a crackhead, or worse, a con artist, are much greater.