unfinished idea, mutual aid
Thinking of offering discounts on my (generally pretty well-paid) freelance work in exchange for customers sending money directly to people asking for aid (eg. on fedi), to cut out myself as the middleman, but this feels like something that could have unintended effects if not thought through carefully...
The idea being to normalize sending money directly to people who need it, as a part of business procedures
re: unfinished idea, mutual aid
@joepie91 taxes around this sounds complicated, maybe you can partly shift the middleman role by setting a non-profit up next to it, and making them make a donation to said non-profit, normalizing at least that some of it goes to charities (and it's tax deductible so actually attractive to companies)
re: unfinished idea, mutual aid
@eater I want to specifically avoid the donations going through an institution, and have them go directly to the recipient - institutional donations make it too easy for corporate folks to hide behind 'professionalism' and never engage with the underlying experiences of the recipients and how their situations came to be
re: unfinished idea, mutual aid
@eater Like, you know the phenomenon of how 5 casualties are a tragedy but 50k casualties are just a news headline?
I want to push this specifically into the former bucket, where people have to engage with the experience of marginalized folks directly rather than as some abstract notion of "some have it worse" without ever *really* feeling or understanding what that means