Buddy, can you spare a dime or three

Patience · Number of posts: 368 Location: England Registration date: 2008-08-26

It's the end of the month and the begging bowl is out again at FDR. This is just a short extract of the January appeal.

Stefan Molyneux wrote:

Donations are always hugely welcome, as are subscriptions, which start at $10 a month, or $0.30 a day. If you have listened to a reasonable number of podcasts, read a book or two -- or more -- or been a part of this community for a few months, and have not donated, I both request and advise a donation.

Of course, it makes me happy to be of financial value to people, and to be able to afford the server, the bandwidth, the software and hardware that I continually need to create and publicize this conversation. (On a pragmatic note, my server contract expires in February of this year, and needs to be renewed, which is not cheap at all...) - but there is more to donating than pleasing me.

Remember, just thirty cents a day could prevent Stef having to come round to your home and collect the money.

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I both request and advise a donation.

Advise? He's advising me to make a voluntary donation? But he said it was free.

NonEntity · Number of posts: 2598 Registration date: 2007-11-08

Remember, advice is worth what you pay for it.

- NonE cat

Stewart · Number of posts: 1186 Location: Boston, MA Registration date: 2008-04-03

I always laugh at how he refers to these payments--especially for the premium content--as "donations".

Conrad · Subject: Re: Buddy, can you spare a dime or three Mon Feb 02, 2009 5:52 pm

also note how in his respone to the media articles he says that he never charged Tom a dime for the talk they had. But Tom did pay more than $500 to him, and Stef explicitly says (as he does in this post as well) that he does explicitly request donations for such podcasts from the people he does those podcasts with. This btw also undermines his 'what i do is not therapy' defense because one of the arguments he uses in that is that he doesn't charge per session as therapists do.

Deep Purple · Number of posts: 127 Registration date: 2008-05-10

Conrad wrote:

also note how in his respone to the media articles he says that he never charged Tom a dime for the talk they had. But Tom did pay more than $500 to him, and Stef explicitly says (as he does in this post as well) that he does explicitly request donations for such podcasts from the people he does those podcasts with. This btw also undermines his 'what i do is not therapy' defense because one of the arguments he uses in that is that he doesn't charge per session as therapists do.

Hmm, I hadn't considered that. Isn't providing therapy without a license "legally actionable"? Wink

It's also crazy that, as someone under 18, he would have and choose to give $500 for Stef.

Phlogiston · Number of posts: 621 Location: NOLA Registration date: 2007-10-25

thats 353.806 GBP or if its canadian dollars its 285.236 GBP.
I agree that someone that age who has that money and donates it must have been supplied with luxury.
Well the Beatles song She's Leaving Home might shed some light on why a luxurious childhood would trouble him but I think its the absolutism of the Stefinator that made him send his money and defoo.

Patience · Number of posts: 368 Location: England Registration date: 2008-08-26

Phlogiston wrote:

thats 353.806 GBP or if its canadian dollars its 285.236 GBP.
I agree that someone that age who has that money and donates it must have been supplied with luxury.
Well the Beatles song She's Leaving Home might shed some light on why a luxurious childhood would trouble him but I think its the absolutism of the Stefinator that made him send his money and defoo.

Tom's childhood was far from luxurious. A year ago, he gave Stef the money he was given by relatives as his Christmas and birthday presents. While still at school, he worked part-time in a cafe and made further "donations" to Stef from his earnings.