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The People GoFundMe Leaves Behind (theoutline.com)
citadrianne shares a report from The Outline: President Donald Trump's proposed budget seeks to slash $54 billion from social services including programs like Medicaid and Meals on Wheels. As these resources dry up, crowdfunding websites will further entrench themselves as extra-governmental welfare providers in order to fill the gap. For a lucky few, these sites are a lifeline. For most people, they are worthless. Crowdfunding's fatal flaw is that not every campaign ends up getting the money it needs. A recent study published in the journal Social Science & Medicine found that more than 90 percent of GoFundMe campaigns never meet their goal. For every crowdfunding success story, there are hundreds of failures. "As many happy stories as there are in charitable crowdfunding, there are a lot of really worthy causes when you browse these platforms that nobody has given a cent to," Rob Gleasure, professor at the business school of the National University of Ireland, Cork told The Outline. "People haven't come across them."
Feller and Gleasure's report highlighted how fickle crowdfunding can be. Of all the Razoo campaigns started in 2013, they found, more than a third didn't receive any funding at all. According to their report, donors are more likely to give to campaigns that feature lots of pictures and accompanying text.
> A recent study published in the journal Social Science & Medicine found that more than 90 percent of GoFundMe campaigns never meet their goal. For every crowdfunding success story, there are hundreds of failures.
No, assuming you are focused on GoFundMe and the study is accurate, then for every crowdfunding success story, there are tens of failures.
I'm disappointed that you didn't lead with a Trump angle on the previous Sci-Hub piracy article. It's like you didn't even try. This one was better.
"more than 90 percent of GoFundMe campaigns never meet their goal. For every crowdfunding success story, there are hundreds of failures." -- So around 9 failures, for every success story. How did we get to hundreds?
I assume that the mentality of the person who did the study was to compare it to conventional non-profits and the way they do fundraising. This is an important distinction because, under that model, there's a certain filtering process. If you've ever looked at a grant application, you'll see that the very nature of any of them tends to point out to you that there needs to be a valid reason for your request for funding. GoFundMe has no such filter, and as a result you get people like these three assholes or this snowflake. And those two are just what I came across by searching "Nintendo" on their site and seeing what came up in the first full set of results.
And then there's the other thing that the filtering process does...which is help reduce the level of scamming. GoFundMe also lacks any means to do this; you see a picture and a nice bit of text but there is absolutely nothing done to validate that either are true. As a result, scams are rampant, to such a degree that there's a whole site dedicated to uncovering the scams.
So, in short...I don't think there's anything wrong with the majority of GoFundMe campaigns failing to reach their goals. Most of them are just fucking ridiculous. And yes, I'm quite sure that some valid campaigns don't get funded as well...but 1, I would put some of the blame on the lack of any vetting process around the campaigns, and 2, that happens in the world of legitimate fundraising too. Posting a picture and type a few paragraphs describing your plight does not automatically guarantee you money...whether you are deserving or not...and that's just how life goes.
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The problem is that so many people need money because the cost of medical care is beyond their reach. The problem is that we live in a society where the ability to continue living is something that you have to "earn". The problem is that so many people are callous and devoid of empathy until it turns into a problem for them. The problem is that we refuse to care for our fellow humans.
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Failure of a croudsource project is a feature, it indicates the lack of a market so that people don't start a company and commit to expenses when there is not a market for their product.
At least read the summary. This is for crowdfunding the cost of insulin, surgery or chemotherapy, not starting company.
-- All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. -- Edmund Burke
Shared by people that are firmly against the Government helping do exactly what they're wanting.
No, they're firmly against being forced, literally at the point of a gun with threat of jail time and having their possessions taken away, to be generous. Liberals LOVE to be generous with other people's money, and even more so when they can make people criminals if they're not generous in exactly the way that obeys their ideology. Asking for help from (and offering help to) like-minded people isn't even remotely the same as being forced on pain of imprisonment to do the same thing, after, of course, also being forced to pay for a huge body of government middle-men and their supporting infrastructure that do exactly nothing towards the actual expense (say, funding a surgery) being met.
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they already took out the folks just randomly asking for money. It's 90% of _medical_ campaigns that fail. But hey, you're uninformed rant probably made you feel better about not providing those 90% with life saving medical care and food/shelter while they're too sick to work, right?
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There is a wide gap between expecting something for free and expecting your country to give you a fair shot.
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
If you are saying that 2/3 of the world exists in 2nd or 3rd world conditions due to a failure of charity, you are assuming that charity can overcome corrupt governments and overt oppression. There is a balance between personal responsibility, charity, and government. In many areas of the world, families operate under the premise that they must care for their own. The younger generations are raised by the older and then it flips to the younger caring for the older when the time comes. When the left says that government will take care of everyone, I don't know if they know they are lying or not. It's something they tell their base so they don't feel bad about not personally doing anything to help their neighbor.
Everybody pays taxes. Some just don't declare it, but they do pay.
But I don't get any government-provided health care.
But you are entitled. You just have to demand it, and vote for people that will properly implement it, and grandma can get two knees for the price of one, once you deal with all the present day fraud and political corruption that makes everything so expensive.
The economy is more than prosperous enough to trivially pay for it. You just have to make the people with all the capital pay their fair share of those taxes.
Now, you can complain all you want about the democrats. I don't even consider them. They are worthless to the cause, same as the republicans, only there to protect their own interests.
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You are an American. You are entitled. Make the government serve you instead of the insurance industry. Start with a firmly worded letter, and follow through with your vote if they don't comply with your wishes.
Whatever nonsense there is in this discussion is coming from you. Maybe it's because you choose to believe their lies. I can assure you that you nothing to gain by it. There is no shortage of fundage. It's just all tied up in the stock/derivatives markets and hoarded into offshore deposits. Free it up and we can all live like kings.
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Planned Parenthood provides healthcare for women, all sorts. They are the go to location for poor and young women to get healthcare.
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