Sunday, September 09, 2018
First step
The story about the rich fuckheads who raised $400k for their homeless friend, then gambled it all away, is messy in terms of good and evil. Hard to tell from a distance whether there's some unseen betrayal from the other side. But from a contractual viewpoint it's simple. Homeless dude gets the money.
And GoFundMe has come through with an unusual guarantee:
But regardless of what happened, the donations are backed by GoFundMe's "GoFundMe guarantee," which protects donors and recipients. "We reached an agreement today with GoFundMe and they have agreed to make sure he will be made whole," Fallon says. In a statement, the company said it would back the money raised: "...Our platform is backed by the GoFundMe Guarantee, which means that in the rare case that GoFundMe, law enforcement or a user finds campaigns are misused, donors and beneficiaries are protected."Before this action the story didn't have any major consequences or meaning. Now it does. GoFundMe has just established itself as the UNQUESTIONABLY SUPERIOR ALTERNATIVE to the infinitely evil stock market. By SPEEDILY enforcing a clear contract in an otherwise messy situation, GoFundMe has become a true Natural Law answer to Wall Street.
Labels: Natural law = Sharia law, Natural law = Soviet law
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