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by praveen9920 2136 days ago
I would say that is not a very sustainable model because idea of the article is to point out class of issue a group of people are facing, not a single person. Sending the money to that one person who faced the issue may give instant gratification and uplift one person/family but it won't help the cause.

And in a country like India, there will always be people who will game the system and the "send me money" button less credible.

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Yep, all those exact reasons are why I noted it's unfair (issue a group of people are facing, not an individual) and would be untenable as soon as it became any kind of system or recurring practice on any scale whatsoever ("there will always be people who will game the system"). Those are precisely the problems with the notion.