[wta-talk] Re: [extropy-chat] Raelians

[Samantha Atkins]

Our goals in practice often require the investment of capital and other 
resources in producing necessary technologies and choices.  It is not 
at all clear that the market will produce what is required in a timely 
manner. I do not believe it would be at all bad to create a Fund (or 
whatever form is appropriate) that could be used to capitalize various 
efforts essential to our goals.   Nor are sufficient funds completely 
irrelevant  to effective widespread evangelizing a cause.

- samantha


On Oct 21, 2004, at 2:57 PM, natashavita at earthlink.net wrote:

> Taking the burden off members for monetary substance might be a wise
> decision in the long run.  This cannot be realized by comparing
> philosophical organizations to religious organizations.  It can be
> accomplished by considering what makes organizations financially 
> successful.
>
> Natasha
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> Original Message:
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> From: Hughes, James J. james.hughes at trincoll.edu
> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 17:45:33 -0400
> To: natashavita at earthlink.net, wta-talk at transhumanism.org,
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org
> Subject: RE: [wta-talk] Re: [extropy-chat] Raelians
>
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>> I do not think that it is necessarily a bad
>> thing that transhumanists do not feel the need or are not
>> driven to donate money, as the practice is with religious
>> organizations (passing the cup).  I am not so certain that
>> "membership" is a positive variable or a necessary one.  It
>> could very well be a limiting one.
>
> Unfortunately the builders of successful nonprofits, parties and
> churches disagree. As I said, having 10,000 cultists donate 100% of
> their income and time can have less influence than 10,000 influentials
> who donate 0.5% of their time and money, if the cultists are isolated
> and the influentials respected. And it may be that there is a trade off
> to some degree between intensity of commitment and breadth of 
> influence.
> But I don't think ExI or the WTA would sacrifice any of our "influence"
> by having members that gave twice as much time or money.
>
> J.
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