Quote from: nah on February 28, 2026, 21:27:52...it wouldn't surprise me if the bulk of it is has to do with donations being poor. Really hard to expect the crowd that would use that site to actually contribute financially.
That's certainly a take. Several studies have shown that the low income individuals are more likely to donate a higher % of their income than the wealthy as they're driven by personal experience of hardship so they can emphasize more and be more compassionate to those in need.
Ofcourse, in this economy where people are getting laid off left, right and centre due to AI that might not mean much. In which case, I would say the rich need to step up more. Or since they essentially own everything, they could maybe you know just release games that are 15+ years old for free and open source at this point. They're not gonna get anymore money from them unless it's IP like console sports games or Nintendo mario games or cod. Those customers just like getting milked.
Also, just because you're "rich" does not guarantee you're going to give back a thing. You've AI companies with revenue and profits the size of continents scraping the web for content and data for their LLMs to train on while not obeying/respecting copyright law at all and paying the necessary licensing fees or royalties.
Then they sell products and subscriptions back to the public for public despite never having payed anything themselves so I'd argue that the greed gets worse at the upper echelons of society.
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