@kims This is very difficult to establish exactly for the same reason that nobody knows who has or hasn't donated to both, but:

I track mutual aid posts pretty closely, and particularly those which get updates about how close they are reaching to the goal, as well as looking at the donation log on services that support that (like Ko-Fi). Mainly because I want to keep an eye on how folks are doing.

And while these posts *do* get donations (sometimes...), the totals are so low, even averaged across many posts over several months, that there is absolutely no way that even $25k a month is going into them, and I would estimate it's quite a bit less than that.

If the amount of money going to mutual aid requests were even close to what KH has received in a few days, then all these mutual aid posts wouldn't remain pending with single dollars trickling in for weeks.

Someone did a tally earlier, and the numbers from that roughly match my internal estimate of the size of the asks, too: https://cyberpunk.lol/@SnoozyRests/112852785334849906

What I'm saying is, these are not just assumptions, they're based on what people actually see happening around them, and in the case of poor folks expressing their frustration, what is happening *to* them.

I just don't see a way to explain the huge discrepancy in numbers other than "the donations are grossly unbalanced".