[digitalengineer]

“The GoFundMe CEO hopes younger donors, who are often more values-driven, digitally native, and community-oriented, will push giving higher and faster.” I can’t believe it. THIS is what he hopes for? He is not stating he hopes his country can get out of this mess? Or researching what his company can do? He’s just looking after his cut.

[masklinn]

He already did that back in 2021: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2021/02/11/gofu...

He might have given up on the country at this point.

[bigbadfeline]

Or he might be switching sides, like every other tech and non-tech business?

Trying not to blame the GOP-controlled Congress in this time of stomp-on-the-critics politics?

What are the odds, knowing what business cares about first and foremost?

[digitalengineer]

Just... wow... Thanks for the link. He did indeed! 2021 "The situation is nothing short of a national emergency. Congress should treat it as such... " And it only got worse. I'm guessing he gave up...

[janwl]

He hopes for what benefits him. Would you rather see him lie and say he hopes people wouldn’t use his platform to pay for groceries?

[mistrial9]

your framing of the question needlessly removes other possibilities.. a benefit of independent companies in an economy is that some can be machiavellian bean-counters, others can be born-again bleeding hearts, and they can make business decisions from either point of view, or many others.

cynicism is a pernicious emotional illness IMHO

[newsclues]

The communication strategy should be to publicly hope for a thriving economy so people aren’t relying on the services for groceries but he is proud and thankful that GoFundme is there to help out in these difficult times…

[nakedrobot2]

Actually yes, exactly this. What he is saying is really disgusting.

[rat9988]

What have you done yourself here about it? For myself, nothing.

[antisthenes]

I would imagine the HN demographic pays quite a bit in taxes, both state and federal.

One would think that in 2025, in one of the wealthiest countries on Earth, we could at least solve food insecurity.

[ryandrake]

We're not going to solve food insecurity when one major political party thinks it's kind of a problem but not big enough to actually do something about, and the other major political party is doing whatever they can policy-wise to increase food insecurity.

[mmooss]

> I would imagine the HN demographic pays quite a bit in taxes, both state and federal.

If they are in the U.S. and wealthy, they pay relatively little. That's why the U.S. has a problem funding these things.

[stavros]

Vote?

[63stack]

Oh get the fuck out with that.

Not writing disingenuous feelgood bullshit, pretending that I work for some kind of greater good, while actually I'm pushing my own company, and trying to shift burden onto the "young digital natives". For a start.

[rcbdev]

I don't know about the United States of America, but in my country it's very common to do volunteer work.

[bigbadfeline]

> I don't know about the United States of America, but in my country it's very common to do volunteer work.

Your business plan for America:

1. Live in an unknown country Z that's not the US, about which you don't know much.

2. Do volunteer work in Z, consisting of doing highly unknown stuff X for a secret number of minutes per year Y.

3. ...

4. Imply unknown profits for Z

5. The US implements a copy of the unknown volunteering in unknown country Z

6. ...

7. Imply enough unknown profits for the US to fix all of its unspecified problems.

Am I missing something, like known or unknown unknown?

[rcbdev]

What exactly is your problem? You could just ask, if you're genuinely curious.

[63stack]

Me neither, and same here.

[rat9988]

> Oh get the fuck out with that.

Hey, learn how to have a nice discussion first then you can tell us about your morale compass.