The Subjective Value Of Money
Ditching Hourly
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Introduction
In 2011 Jonathan Stark inadvertently kicked off a viral social experiment with a sort of mobile payment thing related to Starbucks gift cards. People discovered that they could also put money on the card using the barcode. So what ended up happening was a bunch of sort of altruistic people would put money on it and then other people who were maybe in more need for a free coffee or a free sandwich would use the card. And I created a Twitter account sort of like a Twitter bot that would tweet every time the balance changed.
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