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		JumpCrisscross 17 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Where's Firefox going next? > much more reasonable approach would be to say that your donation is spread out over the entirety of the spend of Mozilla Transactions happen at the margin. If a junkie spends every dollar of a bonus on dope, it’s fair to say the bonus is being burned on dope. Even if they also pay rent with their base salary.

sothatsit 17 days ago [–]

From another user:

If donations doubled, would CEO pay double?

If donations halved, would CEO pay halve?

I suspect the answer is "no" to both of those.

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