silence7@slrpnk.net to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoGoFundMe Is a Boon for Disaster Survivors. Especially the Wealthy Ones. Campaigns on the crowdfunding site raised more money for wildfire survivors with high incomes than for those who need help mostwww.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up1407arrow-down110
arrow-up1397arrow-down1external-linkGoFundMe Is a Boon for Disaster Survivors. Especially the Wealthy Ones. Campaigns on the crowdfunding site raised more money for wildfire survivors with high incomes than for those who need help mostwww.nytimes.comsilence7@slrpnk.net to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square16fedilink
minus-squarecircuscritic@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21arrow-down1·edit-25 months agoMore likely that their donations are supplied by their own social network, which I’m pretty sure is the case for most GoFundMe users… So wealthier people will tend to have networks of people with similar socioeconomic status, and the same would be true for poorer people. Not really surprising which ones get more money, nor is it necessarily nefarious.
minus-squareOpenStars@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·5 months agoThat may be as well. I was just recalling those PP loans during COVID, which later inspection of who got them was often nefarious.
minus-squaremrbm@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoExactly, when their former frat bros and sorority sisters see, they are more likely to be in a position to provide some assistance than me and my neighbors.
More likely that their donations are supplied by their own social network, which I’m pretty sure is the case for most GoFundMe users…
So wealthier people will tend to have networks of people with similar socioeconomic status, and the same would be true for poorer people.
Not really surprising which ones get more money, nor is it necessarily nefarious.
That may be as well. I was just recalling those PP loans during COVID, which later inspection of who got them was often nefarious.
Exactly, when their former frat bros and sorority sisters see, they are more likely to be in a position to provide some assistance than me and my neighbors.