I make it a policy to never donate to a situation I hear about on the internet, especially if there’s a gofundme. Maybe that’s an overreaction it just seems like a good heuristic for ‘this is likely a scam’
I think the risk of ill-gotten gains is offset by the stupidity of people willing to donate to them. I dont really have +/- feelings about either party in that situation.
What I find funny is how gofundme (I hate that name, it sounds so entitled) is 3/4 of the way to re-discovering this thing called insurance. All they need is to somehow promote/emphasize people who donated previously should they ever find themselves in need. i.e. if you donated 5x during the year to car accident victims, at a cost of $x00, should you get in a car wreck, you should be able to use evidence of your donations to get a spotlight on the site. Voila, tech bro comes full-circle and "disrupts" insurance pools (by exploiting a loophole around all those pesky state regulations, lets make "insurance commissioners" the new cab driver )
