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We all knew this, but now there's an open admission.

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[–] CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where should my annual $3 charity budget go, now?!

but more seriously regardless, wikipedia makes a ton of money from public grants and for their role helping the NSA and other federal agencies. I don't understand why they keep asking random people for money when they really, really don't need it. My theory is that because Jimmy Wales is a weird Ayn Rand libertarian, he wants to make it seem as if his model of an "encyclopedia the common man can edit" works.

[–] Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Jimmy Wales is a weird Ayn Rand libertarian

Pretty sure Ayn Rand lived off of welfare while advocating against it, so it fits