Robin hood.
GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor
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#162Tangentially, I dislike strongly when people record videos of themselves doing "goodwill" for others—especially for social media; it always reeks [to me] of insincerity. Not to mention the often unwanted spotlight it casts onto the receiver of said goodwill. If one cares, one does acts of goodwill privately, without thinking about how others will react—including and especially—on the internet. "The true test of a man…
There's a channel on Youtube called Jimmy Darts, he gives out $500 to random people or whoever he deems they are poor. Lot of silly little tasks but you know I enjoy watching the content and people who really need the money get it.
If somebody wants to also build a hospital and plaster their name on it, let them! As long as somebody benefits.
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#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
People generally accept free stuff. Kids aren't some exception to this. You can accomplish this in any developed country with minor effort imo. Have any kids even distantly in your family? Kids know other kids so ask them to invite friends. "less fortunate" is a very broad descriptor for the children you need to feed, especially if you're fortunate.
Depending on the context you could probably give away pizzas pretty easily/innocently. Walking up to some children you do not know and offering to take them to a secondary location in return for free food… would come across very differently
> Walking up to some children you do not know and offering to take them to a secondary location
heh yeah and some kids are very well trained to defend themselves. An offer like that to a larger than average pre-teen or teen may result in way more than you bargained for. If they see you as a threat and the flight/fight coin toss lands on fight, well, you're in for a ride.
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#164What is next? Be healthy ransomware? Forcing people to exercise on camera, for keys?
I think there is an untapped market for people willingly paying some people to watch/monitor them achieve their desired goals consistently. It's similar to beeminder and bodydoubling or r/GetMotivatedBuddies except it would be much more effective because of professionalism. On beeminder there's not check if you being honest/accountable. On GetMotivatedBuddies you generally find unreliable people AND you must coach th…
Wouldn't you just create a Twitch account for this?
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#165Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's the specifics that give it away. "Take 5 poor children from your neighborhood to Pizza Hut." Screaming kids at Pizza Hut aside, we can't make other people have empathy. They have to find it and explore it themselves, perhaps by seeing others do the same. It's especially ironic that someone with lowered empathy would be demanding someone else show fake empathy publicly before giving them back control of their own…
I just can imagine how I'd convince 5 kids to go to lunch with me, without outright kidnapping them. This sounds like Black Mirror material.
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Re: GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor
#166Robin hood.
Yes, this is obviously what it should have been called.
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#167Right now, most people in the US work for free 3-4 months out of the year via taxes. This is theft as well, but interestingly enough it has a smaller overhead then taxes, which nearly all of the funds are transferred to the 1%.
It is wild how many folks on HN think they shouldn’t have to pay taxes
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#168This thing was written by someone who doesn't live in a developed country... There's no way to do those actions in a developed country. Does this person think that just random children are available to be given food to?
exactly. People who need money at the hospital to get treated? Oviously targeted at Americans and other 3rd world countries
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#169Earlier quoted context omitted.
Even countries with universal health care have private hospitals, they'll take your money. One near me asks you to consider paying for their services out of your retirement funds if you don't have private health insurance.
So change the premise of a person who cannot afford the treatment to cannot afford it in a private hospital? Hownto find such a person? Probably the easiest of alln3 is to fly to some poor country and do the stuff there (supported by a local lawyer).
There are plenty of people who cannot get care at government hospitals in countries with "universal healthcare", because of waiting lists, because the government doesn't consider the treatment they need to be worthwhile, etc. You could easily find some of those people on crowdfunding sites, and the media occasionally writes about such cases. The problem is that paying for their treatment at a private hospital would be very expensive, unless the ransomware would accept a partial crowdfunding contribution.