YouTube, they say it's the modern radio. I used to just turn it on and listen, or look it up when I was curious. But sometimes there are creators who make me think. People who show me a new world or make me think deeply. Of course, I subscribe to these people and like them. I used to support them through Super Chat or membership, but when I saw the commission that Google takes, I wondered if that was really helping the creators. So now I support them separately.
This time, I made a special decision. I, who used to be a passive consumer, decided to actively support creators. I sent 1 million won to 8 creators with the hope that they would continue to create something. If there was a public account or sponsor, I sent the money right away. If there wasn't, I asked them by email and proceeded. I chose individual creators who weren't affiliated with a company.
It was a big decision for me to change the donations I had made for 3 years to support individual creators. Originally, I donated to places like Love Fruit, World Vision, and the Red Cross. But I always wondered. Did it really help? Did it improve someone's life? No matter what I did with the money, it was hard to know if it actually helped. There was data for large-scale businesses, but I wanted to know "who" and "how" my money helped, and I couldn't get a satisfactory answer even when I asked.
For example, when donating to a local area, the Fruit of Love usually handles the execution. You can choose a specific area. If you say you want to use it for education, you send the money there. However, it is virtually impossible to say, “Please buy school supplies with my money.” The same goes for donations to facilities or associations. Unless you donate directly in the form of goods, you have no choice but to leave it to them.
I didn't like this at all, so I looked for various ways, but I couldn't find a good one. The most obvious one was a program that World Vision did. The recipient of the donation chose the donor, wrote a letter, sent a photo, and so on. But I stopped after a few months. I personally didn't like using images of children from poor countries. And when I thought about it, I wondered what those children really got, and I wondered if helping children in our country was more important... In the end, the donations didn't continue.
In some ways, I think that if you donate more than 10 million won a year, you get tax benefits, so maybe that's why you do it. Huh? Am I donating to become morally superior? I also think that way... Then I think that in that case, it would be better to donate to the creator. There are no tax benefits, but it's still the same money that's being spent anyway.
This is also a kind of experiment. What kind of meaning do the people I support mean to me? I also hope that they will provide better content or voices that are more needed. I think that would be more meaningful than donating to a child in another country whose name I don't even know, so I am leaving this record.
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좋은 의미가 되길요 문득 8명의 창작자의 선정 기준도 궁금해졌어요
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공통점이 있디면 개인이며, 창작이나 자신의 생각, 작품을 담는 분들입니다.
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본 글이 번역이 두번 되면서 말투가 이상해졌습니다.. 추후 윤문하겠습니다..
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기부방식을 변경하신것....잘 하신것 같아요.
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