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I'm trying to figure out- what's the difference between loading the card and just dropping $10 on the ground?
Nobody is going to drop back 20 bucks after they found the $10 bill.
I believe in Karma but I don't do nice things to have nice things happen to me I do nice things to have nice things happen to others.
This reminds me of something that happened when I was just a bit younger... My girlfriend and I were graduating from pharmacy school and she was applying for residency positions (yes, they have those for pharmacists). Well, she found out she got the one she really wanted and so that night we went out to a nice dinner to celebrate. We did it up like you would expect a happy couple to - nice bottle of wine, share an ap…
I have heard similar restaurant stories happen to some of my friends. Jonathan's card is also a good idea. However, I can't help wondering that with all this technology we are ending up in a situation where the Haves help the Haves and they all feel better for a little while. What can we do to make it easy to help the really needy? Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could just as easily drop $10 to help someone eat a few…
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just loaded $50 on the card, bought 10+ coffees for tech caffeine addicts, got a sweet tweet because I am looking for a tech co-founder for my funded cleantech startup. thinking outside of the box for recruiting... just saying. Oh, and if anyone is interested in joining wa.tt email me, james@wa.tt
this is an interesting concept. Retweet people, who added money to the card, with an advertisement or announcement of their choice. Only issue I see is people loading the card and just spending it on themselves. Maybe they have to tweet you the advertisement, and then you can retweet, so you get more exposure in their twitter stream as well.
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I don't understand: Do people really alternate between being able to afford a coffee and not being able to, more than a couple of times in a lifetime?
Seriously, many people experience that weekly. That's what it means to live paycheck to paycheck.
This reminds me of something that happened when I was just a bit younger... My girlfriend and I were graduating from pharmacy school and she was applying for residency positions (yes, they have those for pharmacists). Well, she found out she got the one she really wanted and so that night we went out to a nice dinner to celebrate. We did it up like you would expect a happy couple to - nice bottle of wine, share an ap…
I have heard similar restaurant stories happen to some of my friends. Jonathan's card is also a good idea. However, I can't help wondering that with all this technology we are ending up in a situation where the Haves help the Haves and they all feel better for a little while. What can we do to make it easy to help the really needy? Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could just as easily drop $10 to help someone eat a few…
When you give free stuff to "those in need", you have to be extremely careful not to just wind up changing the balance of incentives in a way that just encourages them to stay "in need". Otherwise you're harming them, not helping them.
Things like this are just apt for abuse. While in real life when this happens, we get a small connection with the person (they live near me / they also were getting coffee), on the internet, people only see a free gift card that automatically refills itself, and not the people that paid for it. When you are playing with other peoples money, it's hard to be frugal.
I'm trying to figure out- what's the difference between loading the card and just dropping $10 on the ground?
[EDIT] -> I bought a tall drip coffee and the balance dropped from 54.90 to zero between two twitter updates. Now with 2,756 followers on his twitter feed I'm not surprised that 50 dollars dropped that fast. Don't forget that twitters API only allows a certain number of calls per hour. So it is very possible that people are using it properly but its giving the impression that someone is draining the card. Don't forget that as per the statement that someone made about someone buying a coffee machine and paying the rest on their visa. That's a big risk to take there could be only $5 on the card and they would have to pay the rest.
The Twitter feed is not per second transactions. It would be great if Starbucks could give an API call to Jonathan to pull out once per hour the transactions + store location information for that hour which could then be put into a global heat map and would show very interesting results.
Thanks again.
This reminds me of something that happened when I was just a bit younger... My girlfriend and I were graduating from pharmacy school and she was applying for residency positions (yes, they have those for pharmacists). Well, she found out she got the one she really wanted and so that night we went out to a nice dinner to celebrate. We did it up like you would expect a happy couple to - nice bottle of wine, share an ap…
Back in the days of pay phones, I had a friend who'd put quarters in the return slot. While it is a very small gesture, it moved me. Felt like sharing this.