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Or, X% to the donor, Y% to a charity, Z% to cover expenses

Thank you! Again, very helpful. Clearly, the message/concept will need to be carefully crafted to encourage good behavior.

One solution that occurred to me: sharing X% of proceeds back with the donor. The idea being that this would encourage people to send more objectively valuable stuff (though as you point out people are terrible at estimating value).

I like really like the idea of donating to specific causes. Did the thrift shop pay the charities a portion of the proceeds in exchange for the boxes?

Beautiful simple life :)

A man can dream :)

Have to check this out - thank you!

one-in-one-out is a good one; we already implemented this in our household. still a lot of unimportant stuff hanging around getting moved from one apartment to the next... ;)

Interesting twist to the idea!

"Gift Truces" is my new expression of the year. Love it.

This is a really good point!

But even if you treat the cause, these symptoms won't disappear...

This is really helpful perspective, thank you! (the author)

Well, something good came out of this silly idea: I had no idea Amazon does this!! Thanks!

Haha, no one said it would be risk-free :))

That's a misunderstanding: I am not saying there's nothing wrong with what is happening (and my personal beliefs are very much to the contrary). My point is rather than much of the criticism of tech seems to be a criticism of capitalism. So if you want to have a debate about inner cities, poverty, etc, by all means, let's have it, but it's not a tech phenomenon.