Canvassers always have clipboards stuffed with shiny material. Why not put such paperwork to better use?

Humans-on-the-street are asked to solve a real person's or group issue. In some cases the question is an open-ended question. In other cases it's a True/False question about an actual decisions that someone made and whether or not it had disastrous consequences. Answer the T/F question wrong and you are consequently obliged to make a donation for that suffering person's cause.
-- 4and20, May 25 2016

Sounds like regular insurance.
-- zen_tom, May 25 2016


"There is safety in numbers" said the blackbirds...
-- 4whom, May 25 2016


Dumb people have a hard enough time making ends meet. A real know-it-all tax should collect from the people who get the question right. Plus they will be feeling smug and self-satisfied, and so more likely to feel that they can spare some $.
-- bungston, May 25 2016


We are sufficiently taxed by the Cassandra syndrome, thank you
-- theircompetitor, May 25 2016



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