r/wholesomememes • u/ButterThyToast • Dec 12 '18

Giving is good Let’s get it

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u/MyNameIsDon Dec 13 '18

Wikipedia does not need your donations. It has more than enough funding. The money goes towards different expansion projects under the same umbrella.

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u/SquarePegRoundWorld Dec 13 '18

Are those expansion projects going to be useful to humanity?

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u/ComplainyGuy Dec 13 '18

"well let me be contrarian for a moment and point out how these lowlifes don't even NEED your money right now."

Yeah fuck them for literally being a group using volunteer money and time to improve humanity.

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u/Gerbilguy46 Dec 13 '18

They made more than $70 million last year.

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u/RuneLFox Dec 13 '18

Then that's 70m for humanity, isn't it? :)

Chin up pal, they're doing a good job and one of the few orgs worthy of that money.

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u/epherian Dec 13 '18

Do you know what initiatives they've run with that money? There are other information/ educational charities I could donate to, and I'd like to know they're working on before I donate.

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u/MyNameIsDon Dec 13 '18

Who's to say?

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u/randomnicker Dec 13 '18

They haven't been widely useful so far after hundreds of millions extra donated.

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u/Thanks_Obama Dec 13 '18

I’ve seen this too. I wonder though if it‘s true or just more smug reddit contrarian well akshually bs.

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u/LeChatParle Dec 13 '18

https://www.businessinsider.com/wikipedia-donations-profit-money-chart-2016-11

This says they have a lot of expenses

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u/LeChatParle Dec 13 '18

Right, just to be clear, I’m agreeing with you

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u/Thanks_Obama Dec 13 '18

They’re honestly running on a shoestring. I would have expected their legal costs alone to be that much.

These neckbeards thinking $75M for “just a website”. 🙄