The Kickstarter Potato Salad Guy Should Probably Give the Money to Charity
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Re: The Kickstarter Potato Salad Guy Should Probably Give the Money to Charity
#2Do we have any idea how much potato salad guy already gives to charity? It might be a little, it might be a lot, it might be nothing. How is what he does with his money anyone's business but his own?
Re: The Kickstarter Potato Salad Guy Should Probably Give the Money to Charity
#3What's crazy is that on Sunday, he was at like $4K. Two days later he's at more than 10x that. Can't wait for VCs to start funding webscale potato salads.
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#4This is the kind of one-hit wonder that you simply can't imitate. It amuses due to its novelty. Repeat it, and it's gone.
Re: The Kickstarter Potato Salad Guy Should Probably Give the Money to Charity
#5People sure are very good at telling others what they should do.
Would it be morally noble for him to give the money for charity? Sure. Should he "probably" give it to charity? Absolutely not.
Who knows how much this guy gives to charity. Who knows if he has medical bills to pay. Who knows if he's just coming out of a shitty year of unemployment.
I don't even get what the point of this article is. Inform? Nope. Give a valuable insight grounded in personal experience? Nope.
Maybe the author should give the money he gets from Slate writing this joke of an article to charity.
Re: The Kickstarter Potato Salad Guy Should Probably Give the Money to Charity
#6People should give every penny above what is needed for the most basic essentials of life to charity.
(well intentioned bait)
Re: The Kickstarter Potato Salad Guy Should Probably Give the Money to Charity
#7People should give every penny above what is needed for the most basic essentials of life to charity. (well intentioned bait)
Do you do that? What percentage of your income do you donate to charity per year?
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#8He can do whatever the hell he wants with the money (as long as he fulfills his Kickstarter rewards). He isn't some public figure where the stain of his potato salad money that he kept instead of giving to charity will follow him for the rest of his life. These are his 15 minutes of fame, after his Kickstarter ends he'll be collectively forgotten.
The fact that people are giving him a ton of money "ironically" doesn't create any new obligation for him. If he wants to keep the money, I say great. If he wants to give it to charity, fine.
Re: The Kickstarter Potato Salad Guy Should Probably Give the Money to Charity
#9People should give every penny above what is needed for the most basic essentials of life to charity. (well intentioned bait)
Do you do that? What percentage of your income do you donate to charity per year?
I don't. I give an embarrassingly small percentage of my income to charity each year. I am ashamed of this - I'm mostly living paycheck to paycheck, trying to raise a family, fund a retirement and save a good chunk of cash for emergencies - but would like to eventually be more generous.
I don't really think people should give every surplus penny to charity, but it's an interesting perspective. I don't know if there's really a "correct" amount people should give.
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