In case I'm unclear (because the post is long and meandering, and the comment probably is, too):
- I'm not talking about what businesses should or should not do.
- I'm not saying people should or should not support a business in trouble.
- When I talk about businesses requesting donations, I don't mean businesses trying to raise community support. I mean literal donations - bookstores barely open long enough for the paint to dry asking for Paypal donations because they owed six months of back rent and utilities.
- The post was intended to be about semantics - in particular, why people were balking at LHC's call for community support.
The short version is that LHC's wording not only did not inspire confidence in the business's ability to recuperate, it undermined it, hitting the same "Support my church of candy!" button that new bookstores were hitting.
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- I'm not talking about what businesses should or should not do.
- I'm not saying people should or should not support a business in trouble.
- When I talk about businesses requesting donations, I don't mean businesses trying to raise community support. I mean literal donations - bookstores barely open long enough for the paint to dry asking for Paypal donations because they owed six months of back rent and utilities.
- The post was intended to be about semantics - in particular, why people were balking at LHC's call for community support.
The short version is that LHC's wording not only did not inspire confidence in the business's ability to recuperate, it undermined it, hitting the same "Support my church of candy!" button that new bookstores were hitting.