Presumably this is designed to lure every entitled bastard with plenty of money to pay, so we can radiotag them like elephant seals.
This is very good project.
That said, just reading this stings:
> and most recently providing free breakfast bags to hungry school children.
Why are there hungry school children in the first place? That’s not an okay situation.
Is this the start of businesses running like charities, the big society?
I think a certain level of open-book accounting could actually work quite well for businesses which also embrace charitable services in their communities.
If you simply stated what price you needed to charge to break-even on each item, but let people pay what they want, you’d of course get people who will pay below that rate through necessity, but I think you might be surprised at how many people pay beyond what you’d have normally charged as they’d been keen to support businesses which are having such a tangible effect on their community.
Donating to a charity can feel a bit ethereal sometimes, but if you’ve got a business in your town that is actively handing out food to people who need it right in front of you then I think you’d be more willing to support them however you can.
The question I guess is whether the generosity of your community can outpace the needs of the people who don’t have enough…
While only last night on Look North a Berwick cafe that’s been doing this for ages is now asking for twenty thousand just to continue.
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Presumably this is designed to lure every entitled bastard with plenty of money to pay, so we can radiotag them like elephant seals.
This is very good project.
That said, just reading this stings:
> and most recently providing free breakfast bags to hungry school children.
Why are there hungry school children in the first place? That’s not an okay situation.
Is this the start of businesses running like charities, the big society?
I think a certain level of open-book accounting could actually work quite well for businesses which also embrace charitable services in their communities.
If you simply stated what price you needed to charge to break-even on each item, but let people pay what they want, you’d of course get people who will pay below that rate through necessity, but I think you might be surprised at how many people pay beyond what you’d have normally charged as they’d been keen to support businesses which are having such a tangible effect on their community.
Donating to a charity can feel a bit ethereal sometimes, but if you’ve got a business in your town that is actively handing out food to people who need it right in front of you then I think you’d be more willing to support them however you can.
The question I guess is whether the generosity of your community can outpace the needs of the people who don’t have enough…
While only last night on Look North a Berwick cafe that’s been doing this for ages is now asking for twenty thousand just to continue.