Giving money to your admin to keep things running or to the Mastodon project are great ways to give back and help your community.
Giving money to support individual users on Mastodon who need money and resources is just as if not more helpful and important.
Support the poor in your community. Pay the artists. Spread the resources around. Make this place as healthy and punk rock as possible.
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@foox As a poor person, I'd prefer actual money, thanks. š
@GinnyMcQueen as a poor person it is ESPECIALLY important to take back your financial sovereignty. YOU deserve it! remove the middleman (banks) from your value exchange system and enter a new paradigm of freedom.
@GinnyMcQueen errrr no i was trying to be inspirational.
@foox Don't go around telling poor people what they need. It's a bad look, and your take is extremely privileged and uneducated.
@GinnyMcQueen you are totally correct! I appreciate the feedback and will totally reconfigure. Check out some of the art I made about money. I think you will like it.
@foox @GinnyMcQueen crypto isn't going to help poor people when the barrier to entry to get into crypto is paper money and poor people don't have money to waste on a currency that is predominantly used as an investment opportunity.
The concept is nice but it doesn't pan out when people speculate and use cryptocurrencies like a stock.
@zeroes @GinnyMcQueen there will be many cryptocurrencies some will be inflationary like our current money supply and others will be a store of value - so eventually as we migrate across to the new system people will buy and transact and not even know they are using cryptocurrency. but i was only just suggesting that there be a payment gateway for people to give each other money on mastodon based on Ginny original toot.
@foox Cool, I'm okay with not being lectured at because you think you know more than I do about my needs and assume I don't understand anything about currency or the economy.