Buying vs. Tipping redux
It happened again. Atrios posted a plea for donations to cover the cost of a new laptop (apparently, something involving a cat and a glass of wine rendered his less than healthy), and within three hours, he not only has enough donations to cover the cost of the coputer, but somebody had also bought him the thing outright off of his Amazon wishlist.
I swear, we’re only just beginning to see the power of individual tipping on a massively distributed scale. Read the comments on Atrios’ posts…they’re really interesting from a sociological standpoint in getting at why people chose to donate.