You can buy anything you want with a gift card. Whatever you choose to buy, that’s your gift. But no matter what you do, you’re never gonna get butter out of a butterfly.
What money? There is only a Lego set in your example. A Lego set does not pretend to be money like a gift card does.
If you were to pick one thing to take with you to a desert island for 6 months I guarantee a Lego set would be higher on your list than money. This is because Lego itself has value, at least to those who enjoy using it. Money does not have any intrinsic value outside trade. It is a means to an end. A way to acquire something of actual value to you.
Maybe I don’t feel like enabling a total stranger? Maybe I want to make sure I’m helping a problem with food and clothes rather than making it worse? Call it whatever the fuck you want Imma keep doing it and I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it
There’s people in this thread saying a gift card isn’t a gift because it has stipulations on how it can be spent. They’re not being super aggressive about it, but still. If you want to find that comment chain check my last post.
I mentioned it on a Discord server and got such responses as “Oh shut up. Let people have agency.” and “It’s just restricting more control from societies most vulnerable group.”
Yeah, I don’t think I’ve seen anything that aggressive about it outside the Discord server, and it’s the only one that really sticks in memory, but I’ve also seen a few comments in threads here and there sharing the sentiment less aggressively.
If a gift of money comes with requirements on how to spend that money, it’s not a gift.
Are gift cards not gifts then?
No. They’re a fucking burden.
Yes, gift cards are gift cards. Gift cards, however, are not money as you can’t spend them anywhere.
Yes, but that wasn’t the question. Gift cards are to gifts like butterflies are to butter.
You can buy anything you want with a gift card. Whatever you choose to buy, that’s your gift. But no matter what you do, you’re never gonna get butter out of a butterfly.
Only if that thing you want is sold by the shop the gift card is for. That’s the condition.
The original point (above my comment) was that the presence of the condition makes it not a gift.
I will literally buy you a $200 Roblox gift card if you can directly buy a Keychron Q6 with it.
By that logic a Lego set isn’t a gift because the gift giver stipulated that the money could only be spent on a Lego set
What money? There is only a Lego set in your example. A Lego set does not pretend to be money like a gift card does.
If you were to pick one thing to take with you to a desert island for 6 months I guarantee a Lego set would be higher on your list than money. This is because Lego itself has value, at least to those who enjoy using it. Money does not have any intrinsic value outside trade. It is a means to an end. A way to acquire something of actual value to you.
You can sell gift cards or regift them.
Maybe I don’t feel like enabling a total stranger? Maybe I want to make sure I’m helping a problem with food and clothes rather than making it worse? Call it whatever the fuck you want Imma keep doing it and I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it
Then don’t give them money directly. You can’t control how they spend it.
But if you just offer to buy them food, then people on the internet will complain at you denying them agency.
Can you provide an example of such complaining?
There’s people in this thread saying a gift card isn’t a gift because it has stipulations on how it can be spent. They’re not being super aggressive about it, but still. If you want to find that comment chain check my last post.
Okay? That has absolutely nothing to do with buying someone food.
I mentioned it on a Discord server and got such responses as “Oh shut up. Let people have agency.” and “It’s just restricting more control from societies most vulnerable group.”
So a couple of people on a Discord serve said that and you extrapolate it to the entire internet?
Let’s take an informal poll. Who here would criticize someone who offered to buy a homeless person a meal? Please speak up.
Yeah, I don’t think I’ve seen anything that aggressive about it outside the Discord server, and it’s the only one that really sticks in memory, but I’ve also seen a few comments in threads here and there sharing the sentiment less aggressively.
But it’s also worth noting that any time you talk about doing something selfless, there will be people trying to poke holes to diminish it.
Without the xkcd I wanted to downvote… Lol…
I refrained from voting at all instead
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