Topic: Idea: pre printed signs for panhandlers.
Meta !Sober//iZs started this discussion 6 years ago #92,492
Here's the problem. Well, two problems, actually: panhandlers need signs and companies need advertising. How do we kill two birds with one stone and create a win-win situation? Major companies like Walmart, McDonalds, Citibank, Starbucks, etc distribute free signs at their stores. These signs are large (like maybe 2 feet by 3 feet), two-sided and come printed with common slogans like "anything helps, god bless!". But the top and bottom thirds of the sign have the company logo and "this message brought to you by Walmart™" at the bottom. Maybe current promotions like sales, buy one get one free, free carwash with any oil change, etc, could also be showcased on the signs (new signs come out weekly).
The companies can take a tax write-off on the signs as charitable contribution, and the homeless are effectively turned into advertising. In exchange, the homeless get higher quality signs with professional, legible, printing.
Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 7 minutes later[^] [v] #1,049,532
Libertarianism: not even once™
Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 3 minutes later, 11 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,049,534
The problem with that is, that there is no guaranteed turn around. It might work for convenience stores, where homeless are more likely to spend any money they get anyway.
Meta !Sober//iZs (OP) replied with this 6 years ago, 1 day later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,050,154
@1,049,532 (Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU)
You laugh but in 1-3 years some startup is going to take this idea and run with it to a billion dollar IPO. It'll be the next Groupon.
You laugh but in 1-3 years some startup is going to take this idea and run with it to a billion dollar IPO. It'll be the next Groupon.
Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU replied with this 6 years ago, 3 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,050,155
@previous (Meta !Sober//iZs)
I have no doubt that there will be yet another way invented for wealthy capitalist™ countries that could end homelessness directly by providing them with state-sponsored housing, job training, and mental health services, to instead find a way to profit off their misery.
I have no doubt that there will be yet another way invented for wealthy capitalist™ countries that could end homelessness directly by providing them with state-sponsored housing, job training, and mental health services, to instead find a way to profit off their misery.
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