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Atra Materia ([personal profile] thedarkmaterial) wrote in [site community profile] dw_news 2024-10-15 11:43 pm (UTC)

Late to the party as usual, but wanted to throw some "hell yeah this would be amazing if it could be implemented appropriately" toward this one! DW is one of the only services I pay for regularly (and I really appreciate that you've let us keep the monthly option even though it's less economic for you because I wouldn't be able to manage it any other way!) and I'd consider it worth the cost even if it was slightly more, but at that point it might be less about whether I was willing and more just straight whether I was able (disabled adult; every time the SSA gives us a cost of living adjustment, the state cuts our other benefits because prices haven't actually changed since the twenties so that's just extra money we've got lying around, and the COLA has never affected the amount my payee gives me for myself, so that couple of dollars people are always like, "You can't find two dollars somewhere? You can't skip [small luxury] once?" Good sir, I am eating a sixty-cent packet of generic "turkey", and if you take it from my hands, they are not going to start pouring gold doubloons!)

So I could definitely see some manner of applying (for lack of a better term) for a directed "user subsidy" being a potential paid-account-lifesaver for some people! (Especially if it was set up in a way that kept it from feeling like just begging for handouts - that way, the potential givers (hopefully) wouldn't get annoyed, and the potential recipients wouldn't have to worry about whether they're being annoying. (And if we're going full "And while we're dreaming, I'd like a pony" level with it, maybe even options for both "I'd like to continue paying what I can, and am just looking for help with what's over my original budget," and "I have fallen on really really hard times and would graciously accept someone covering it completely", so that there's more to go around!))

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