Ka mana o 99
He hui hoʻolālā pūnaewele e hāʻawi ana i kā lākou mau lawelawe me ka manuahi ʻole i ke kumumanaʻo o ka hoʻokele waiwai makana Freevolution - kahi papahana uku-it-forward-i kapa ʻia ʻo FREE PASS. No ka mea ʻaʻole pono ʻoe e hōʻike iā ʻoe iho i kekahi mea.
It is a very difficult service to rate for several reasons. One is their “pricing” model. For one, a price is mainly (if not only) connected to trade, else the notion of “price” won’t even exist. Second, in order to get their services you have to either pay what you want (so yes, a trade), or they will give you a “free pass” card https://www.directory.trade-free.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/PYv5pmU.png. What if you do not want any of that? And you simply want their services but do not care about the free pass or do not want to pay them anything? Can you do that? Why isn’t there a way to just access the services without any conditions?
ʻO ka lua, hāʻawi lākou i nā lawelawe he nui i ʻike ʻole ʻia: WEBDESIGN (Hosting, Programming, Designing, Marketing); KĀNĀWAI (Aʻoaʻo, Hoʻoholo Pilikino, Hoʻolālā Pāʻoihana); HAAWINA HELUHELU (Happy, Depression, Anxiety, Success). A hāʻawi wale ʻia kēia mau lawelawe ma o nā ala pilikino e like me ka leka uila. ʻAʻole hiki iā mākou ke nānā i kekahi o kēia.
Manaʻo wau inā hilinaʻi lākou i kekahi mau kālepa e like me ka mea i wehewehe ʻia ma luna nei, e hana ana kēia i kahi kaulike ʻole o ka mana a me kahi hoʻoikaika maikaʻi ʻole. Pehea inā e hoʻokahua ʻia ka poʻe e uku ana ma mua o ka poʻe ʻaʻole uku!? ʻAʻole wau i hilinaʻi i kekahi mau hana like ʻole no ka mea ua ʻike pinepine au i ka hopena o nā hopena maikaʻi ʻole. I koʻu manaʻo, ʻaʻole kēia he lawelawe kālepa ʻole no ka mea e ʻae lākou i kekahi mau kālepa manawaleʻa e hoʻoikaika i kā lākou mau mea nui, a ʻo ka lua ʻaʻole hiki iā mākou ke nānā inā ʻaʻole kālepa ka mea a lākou e hāʻawi ai no ka mea ua hana ʻia ma o nā ala pilikino e like me ka leka uila.
Inā makemake lākou e hāʻawi i nā haʻawina hoʻolālā pūnaewele a i ʻole kōkua, hiki iā lākou ke hana i nā wikiō e pili ana i ia mea a kau iā lākou no ka manuahi ma ka pūnaewele ma archive.org a i ʻole nā lawelawe kūʻai kūʻai like ʻole, a inā makemake lākou e hoʻolako i nā ʻano lawelawe "kamaʻilio" āpau e like me nā kūkākūkā a me nā kūkākūkā, pono lākou e hana pēlā me ka hoʻouna ʻole ʻana aku i nā poʻe i kā lākou kāleka kāleka manuahi a i ʻole e noi iā lākou e uku i kā lākou makemake. Hāʻawi wale lākou i kēlā a inā makemake lākou i ke kōkua kālā, e noi wale lākou i nā haʻawina, ʻo ia nā hāʻawi manawaleʻa inā ʻoe e noi i kahi lawelawe mai iā lākou a ʻaʻole paha.
W.A.I.T. – What Am I Trading? Well, it’s a bit confusing, since the website asks you to pay either nothing or pay what you want (https://99power.org/pricing). I find this in contrast to offer something without asking anything in return and relying on donations with a donation page, where you can donate if you want. What if the website gets 5 e-mails about using the service and 2 of those use the pay nothing option and 3 of those use the pay what you want option. Will everyone get the same service? What if one of those 3 who pay something pays 10€, the other one 50€ and the third one 300€? Will the one with 300€ get a better or faster service? I think that could be a slippery slope.
ʻO kekahi mea e huikau iaʻu ʻo ka hāʻawi ʻana i ka "ʻōlelo aʻo ʻoihana" (https://99power.org/about - https://www.directory.trade-free.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/sPf4mPn.png). He ʻokoʻa kēia i ka manaʻo kālepa ʻole, ʻoiai ʻo ka ʻoihana e pili ana i ka pāʻani kālepa. Akā inā ʻaʻole kālepa ka hāʻawi ʻana i ka ʻōlelo aʻo ʻoihana, a laila he lawelawe kālepa ʻole ia. E like me ka hāʻawi ʻana i ka Baibala me ke kālepa ʻole, ʻoiai ʻo ka Baibala he bullshit a ʻaʻole ʻepekema.
No laila ʻaʻole maopopo iaʻu ka mea e hana ai me kēia. E ʻōlelo wau, inā makemake lākou e hāʻawi i ka "webdesign, coding, programming, business advice and general consulting" ma ke ʻano he lawelawe kalepa ʻole, pono lākou e hāʻawi i kēlā a hana i kahi ʻaoʻao kahi e ʻae ai lākou i nā hāʻawi a ʻo ia nō. ʻAʻohe huikau, ʻaʻohe bullshit - ʻo ka lawelawe kālepa ʻole wale nō.
Makemake au e haʻi aku i nā ʻoihana kalepa ma ka pūnaewele ma lalo (https://www.directory.trade-free.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/dzPEBnr.png). Akā, ʻaʻohe mea nānā ma ka pūnaewele.
I kēia manawa, hāʻawi wau i 3 o 5 mau poloka a makemake wau i nā poʻe ʻē aʻe e ʻōlelo i kēia e ʻike i kā lākou hoʻopaʻapaʻa.