interview with Five Thirty Eight
May. 4th, 2020 02:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rinueIt is now a matter of public record that I am essential and stable.
I don't know how interesting this interview will be for anyone else, since I participated as part of my continued commitment to putting bland financial details out there instead of throwing around vague terms like "the middle class." (I figure: What is useful to collective bargainers? What is useful to historians?)
Frankly, I suspect it's mostly useful in aggregate, so click on the tag to read the rest of the "Working Through Coronavirus" series.
One clarification - when Chris Herring and I talked a few weeks ago, I'd just bought a $300 gift card to a super-local restaurant with a single location and a tiny staff, and it was after first checking with them to see whether they had a digital tip jar I could dump money into. My focus hasn't specifically been restaurants; my other donations have been to a local emergency fund, the local food bank, and individuals in need.
I feel slightly weird about how local my giving has been, when there are other places under more stress, but I'm essentially operating under the guidance of "It's a Wonderful Life" and its signposts for how an individual can resist a monopolistic takeover during an economic depression. Will this make a difference? I don't know. It's how I'm playing the chips I have.
(I also continue to support refugee aid and data preservation through small recurring donations, but that has not changed in amount or frequency. I want to save all the people, and also the things they have discovered.)
Regarding placement of this article in time, the main interview took place on Easter Sunday, although there were follow-ups. Nothing has essentially changed between then and publication, except that I'm no longer waiting on the stimulus payment I expect to get; it happened, and was the amount I expected.
I don't know how interesting this interview will be for anyone else, since I participated as part of my continued commitment to putting bland financial details out there instead of throwing around vague terms like "the middle class." (I figure: What is useful to collective bargainers? What is useful to historians?)
Frankly, I suspect it's mostly useful in aggregate, so click on the tag to read the rest of the "Working Through Coronavirus" series.
One clarification - when Chris Herring and I talked a few weeks ago, I'd just bought a $300 gift card to a super-local restaurant with a single location and a tiny staff, and it was after first checking with them to see whether they had a digital tip jar I could dump money into. My focus hasn't specifically been restaurants; my other donations have been to a local emergency fund, the local food bank, and individuals in need.
I feel slightly weird about how local my giving has been, when there are other places under more stress, but I'm essentially operating under the guidance of "It's a Wonderful Life" and its signposts for how an individual can resist a monopolistic takeover during an economic depression. Will this make a difference? I don't know. It's how I'm playing the chips I have.
(I also continue to support refugee aid and data preservation through small recurring donations, but that has not changed in amount or frequency. I want to save all the people, and also the things they have discovered.)
Regarding placement of this article in time, the main interview took place on Easter Sunday, although there were follow-ups. Nothing has essentially changed between then and publication, except that I'm no longer waiting on the stimulus payment I expect to get; it happened, and was the amount I expected.
