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WCDT strips 4036 - 4040 (1 - 5 July 2019)
Perfectly Reasonable:
As an engineer, I'm trained to see that 10% is significant as a rule of thumb. You can demand a tithe of 10% without bending people too much out of shape. You can dump 10% into someone's budget without distorting their activities too much. Spookybot does not want to be disruptive. I am sure that they could find a couple of thousand worthy charities to benefit. In less than 5 milliseconds.
It's what -I- would do.
brasca:
--- Quote from: SmilingCat on 02 Jul 2019, 19:21 ---Wait... so would Roko have preferred that Spookybot hadn't handed over two billion dollars to charity just because then she wouldn't feel so powerless?
Because that's a pretty messed up sense of priorities, Roko.
--- End quote ---
Especially when you consider how Beepatrice feels. Roko may not have actually helped May get a new chassis, but Beepatrice feels like a failure because she couldn't even get that far in the process. Is that Roko's fault? No. Now Roko feels inferior because Spookybot litterally snapped their figners and charities are experiencing a windfall. Is that Spookybot's fault? If it is then Roko should be ashamed of herself for inadvertently being better at Beepatrice's job. :roll:
Roko really shouldn't feel that bad because after all she put the idea in Spookybot's head.... so there's that.
SmilingCat:
I should probably clarify that I'm not trying to condemn Roko for getting angry. It's not a necessarily unnatural reaction. Just an unhealthy one that I would hope she learns to address as she grows as a character.
(Or, I don't know, maybe not if it serves the story better, sometimes the story is best served by characters not overcoming their unhealthy behaviors...)
halstripey:
--- Quote ---To be slightly more fair to Roko, there's also the surprise angle. How often does asking a billionaire to give all their money to charity actually work? Its something most people would have to wrap their head around.
--- End quote ---
Yeah I get that, but I didn’t expect her to get angry. I don’t understand it. I think I did for one minute, but I’ve lost it again. Because I keep thinking about how she was the one who (carelessly?) dared them to do it in the first place.
TheEvilDog:
The problem isn't Roko's reaction.
The problem lies with Spooky's actions, or rather, lack thereof.
Look at 4035, where Roko suggests that Spooky could easily get May a new chassis, no questions asked. And Spooky's response was "We were thinking more in terms of espionage, blackmail and outright theft." That's how Spooky operates, in the shadows. It never occurs to them to help for the sake of helping.
Spooky didn't donate out of the goodness of their heart. They did it so they could score brownie points with Roko.
Its not the money they've donated. Its why they did it. Just because they could. Just for shits and giggles.
Spooky gave away two billion dollars. Here's some consideration what that can do.
- $1 million could bring fresh water to 50,000 people in impoverished countries through Charity: Water.
- $3 million could provide 10,000 children meals for 10 months through Feed the Children.
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