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You know, when Christian Selig had to shut down Apollo and said it was going to be difficult to unexpectedly and immediately refund $250,000 in subscriptions, I wanted to support him for what he'd done for the community and to kinda stick a mental finger up at reddit. So I went and bought an Apollo t-shirt, and if I'd had a subscription I'd've considered declining the refund - despite the fact that Christian's current estimated net worth is more than I'll ever make in my entire lifetime. Because I'm angry at reddit and because Christian is perceived as having done a good thing, at least in the circles I hang around in.
Probably the same thing with people who donated to Trump.
Yeah, except Trump has never in his life created anything of real value.
Christian’s estimated net worth isn’t as much as you think. He was running a successful business with operating costs, it’s not like he had that much money in the bank. He may have raised $250,000 a year but it went to expenses, it’s not like he had that money all in his bank account at any one time. He had to shut down Apollo because Reddit asked for a million dollars up front in just a month and he couldn’t raise that much.
I understand that, but the same argument could be said for Trump: he has buildings and debts and a certain lack of liquidity as well. I mean, for very different reasons, but still a lack of liquid assets. I'm more than happy to buy a t-shirt and support Christian, which probably seems just as incomprehensible to some subset of Trump supporters as their Trump donations seems to me.
Those are very different circumstances. Selig probably could have raised a million dollars if his freedom relied on it, hell even I could do that. He couldn't raise a million dollars to fund a business venture knowing it probably wouldn't be viable as a continuing business due to new costs.