Wow, just wow.
> If you think anyone is getting rich working at the WMF, I can disavow you of that notion. It's just not true.
Managers earning $300K+ are not getting rich. Good. I guess it's all relative.
> As for the language in the ads, it's there because it works. The WMF has tried, many times, language which is less emotional and more objective. It doesn't work. People don't respond.
"We simply couldn't have increased our revenue from $5M in 2008 to $155M in 2021 without being emotional and, um, 'unobjective'. We just couldn't have done it."
> What you're asking for is to have people donate because of their objective sense of value but that's not how most humans work. The WMF does what works.
"If you want people to give you 31 times as much money as before, you have to tell a good story. What else can you do? By the way, did we mention that we think we should be the central part of the world's information ecosystem?"
> If you think anyone is getting rich working at the WMF, I can disavow you of that notion. It's just not true.
Managers earning $300K+ are not getting rich. Good. I guess it's all relative.
> As for the language in the ads, it's there because it works. The WMF has tried, many times, language which is less emotional and more objective. It doesn't work. People don't respond.
"We simply couldn't have increased our revenue from $5M in 2008 to $155M in 2021 without being emotional and, um, 'unobjective'. We just couldn't have done it."
> What you're asking for is to have people donate because of their objective sense of value but that's not how most humans work. The WMF does what works.
"If you want people to give you 31 times as much money as before, you have to tell a good story. What else can you do? By the way, did we mention that we think we should be the central part of the world's information ecosystem?"