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Re: Cards Against Humanity makes 54k for literally nothing
« Reply #2 on: November 28, 2015, 11:59:35 AM »
And here is what they reported they did this year.

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Re: Cards Against Humanity makes 54k for literally nothing
« Reply #3 on: November 28, 2015, 12:22:26 PM »
They should have donated it all.  what they did sucks!

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Re: Cards Against Humanity makes 54k for literally nothing
« Reply #4 on: November 28, 2015, 01:11:28 PM »
They should have donated it all.  what they did sucks!

But they did mostly donate it if you look at individual spending :-)

But seriously, people better not spend money on literally nothing and then get upset when the profits are spent by the for-profit company that sold it!

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« Reply #5 on: November 28, 2015, 02:21:15 PM »
Damn, I missed it. I would have bought!

I bought the box of bullshit before, and literally all the other CAH products they've made. I'm a big fan of their company!
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Re: Cards Against Humanity makes 54k for literally nothing
« Reply #6 on: November 28, 2015, 04:44:20 PM »
And here is what they reported they did this year.

Buy something ridiculous, buy something useful, and donate the rest to charity or direct donations. It makes you wonder how coordinated their purchases were.  A number of employees paid down student debt, invested, or did something to improve the life of a family member.

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Re: Cards Against Humanity makes 54k for literally nothing
« Reply #7 on: November 28, 2015, 05:15:23 PM »
And here is what they reported they did this year.

Buy something ridiculous, buy something useful, and donate the rest to charity or direct donations. It makes you wonder how coordinated their purchases were.  A number of employees paid down student debt, invested, or did something to improve the life of a family member.

Are they obligated to do otherwise? Last year people paid them for shit, this year people gave them money with no explicit promise, or even hint. Maybe they might have a social obligation, but I think it's kinda funny (no I didn't contribute).

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« Reply #8 on: November 29, 2015, 05:01:19 AM »
And here is what they reported they did this year.

Buy something ridiculous, buy something useful, and donate the rest to charity or direct donations. It makes you wonder how coordinated their purchases were.  A number of employees paid down student debt, invested, or did something to improve the life of a family member.

Holly, Jenn and Tom totally bought the best things.

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Re: Cards Against Humanity makes 54k for literally nothing
« Reply #9 on: November 29, 2015, 08:14:43 AM »
I'm amazed at all the different crap these people bought with it. Swords, nintendo's, expensive alcohol, etcetera. I  always need to remember that followers of the mustache are rare indeed.

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Re: Cards Against Humanity makes 54k for literally nothing
« Reply #10 on: November 29, 2015, 09:11:43 AM »
The deluxe sex toy purchase cracked me up.

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Re: Cards Against Humanity makes 54k for literally nothing
« Reply #11 on: November 29, 2015, 09:33:32 AM »
Is selling "nothing" even legal? Corporations can't receive donations, and tax deductions are deductible when no goods or services are received in return..if it quacks like a duck.


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Re: Cards Against Humanity makes 54k for literally nothing
« Reply #12 on: November 29, 2015, 10:29:57 AM »
Is selling "nothing" even legal? Corporations can't receive donations, and tax deductions are deductible when no goods or services are received in return..if it quacks like a duck.

Corporations can receive donations, but you can't deduct that donation on your taxes unless that corporation is certified as a non-profit. CAH was pretty clear you were not going to receive anything for your money.

They're an LLC so they could be taxed in a number of different ways, but if they're taxed as a partnership and everyone is an owner, each member will have to pay tax on their share of the profit, minus whatever charitable contributions they made.

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« Reply #13 on: November 29, 2015, 11:38:10 AM »
I'm amazed at all the different crap these people bought with it. Swords, nintendo's, expensive alcohol, etcetera. I  always need to remember that followers of the mustache are rare indeed.

I saw someone post that they were going to give money this year because it was funny how they spent the money last year.

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Re: Cards Against Humanity makes 54k for literally nothing
« Reply #14 on: December 03, 2015, 01:45:07 PM »
This should be in the "Mutachianism around the Web" forum. its brilliant. This company is brilliant, and it is a performance piece on consumerism, they do something different every black friday.

Also in no way should they have to donate the money. They are being paid by a rabid fan base that enjoys their product - kudos to them. Shaming creators into donating money is awful by the way.

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« Reply #15 on: December 03, 2015, 01:54:22 PM »
Love it. Might have donated if I had known.

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« Reply #16 on: December 03, 2015, 02:12:59 PM »
They should have donated it all.  what they did sucks!
There were many donations in there.

I, for one, really enjoyed reading the list.

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Re: Cards Against Humanity makes 54k for literally nothing
« Reply #17 on: December 03, 2015, 02:22:53 PM »
Too funny. And really, why should anyone have any grounds for complaint? They were told and told and told what they would get. Nothing.

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Re: Cards Against Humanity makes 54k for literally nothing
« Reply #18 on: December 04, 2015, 07:23:28 AM »
They're an LLC so they could be taxed in a number of different ways, but if they're taxed as a partnership and everyone is an owner, each member will have to pay tax on their share of the profit, minus whatever charitable contributions they made.
Since they passed it all along to the employees, there's no profit to partners. I assume it will be reported as some kind of wages or bonus, so the employees will be taxed on it.

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Re: Cards Against Humanity makes 54k for literally nothing
« Reply #19 on: December 04, 2015, 07:59:38 AM »
Do you guys really think this company is mustacian?

Sure, they did a little ploy against consumerism on black friday but then they turned around and blew it all in the most consumerist way possible. Freaking $450 dinners.... $850 DINNER FOR TWO WTF? 3 grand for a vibrator thousand and thousands of dollars in fantasy costumes and replicas, lots of car purchases, and why are there so many donations to planned parenthood?

It's obvious most of them have no money and still have student loans.

In my opinion they blew this money like idiots who go out and spend every cent they own because they just got their big tax return check.

only ONE person put any of this money into savings in her ROTH IRA

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Re: Cards Against Humanity makes 54k for literally nothing
« Reply #20 on: December 04, 2015, 08:07:13 AM »
Do you guys really think this company is mustacian?

Sure, they did a little ploy against consumerism on black friday but then they turned around and blew it all in the most consumerist way possible. Freaking $450 dinners.... $850 DINNER FOR TWO WTF? 3 grand for a vibrator thousand and thousands of dollars in fantasy costumes and replicas, lots of car purchases, and why are there so many donations to planned parenthood?

It's obvious most of them have no money and still have student loans.

In my opinion they blew this money like idiots who go out and spend every cent they own because they just got their big tax return check.

only ONE person put any of this money into savings in her ROTH IRA

the company is good with money, the employees may not be.
the company got people to give them cash, to distribute as their year end bonus, tax free, maybe. either way it didnt have to come out of their earnings/revenue.

the employees on the other hand bought a lot of nerdy bs.  but then again, this was windfall they probably didnt plan for. so we can not assume that the employees didnt put anything in a 401k all year, or an ira, and for all we know those student loans are at 1.9% interest.

all we do know is they were given a wad of cash, and how they spent it.

not enough info

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Re: Cards Against Humanity makes 54k for literally nothing
« Reply #21 on: December 04, 2015, 08:18:30 AM »
I don't see any evidence of the MMM-type efficiency in the purchases they made. Going to Craigslist for a Nintendo WII if you care about video games? Second-hand vibrator?

On second thought, Ew!

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Re: Cards Against Humanity makes 54k for literally nothing
« Reply #22 on: December 04, 2015, 08:53:57 AM »
Do you guys really think this company is mustacian?

Sure, they did a little ploy against consumerism on black friday but then they turned around and blew it all in the most consumerist way possible. Freaking $450 dinners.... $850 DINNER FOR TWO WTF? 3 grand for a vibrator thousand and thousands of dollars in fantasy costumes and replicas, lots of car purchases, and why are there so many donations to planned parenthood?

It's obvious most of them have no money and still have student loans.

In my opinion they blew this money like idiots who go out and spend every cent they own because they just got their big tax return check.

only ONE person put any of this money into savings in her ROTH IRA

the company is good with money, the employees may not be.
the company got people to give them cash, to distribute as their year end bonus, tax free, maybe. either way it didnt have to come out of their earnings/revenue.

the employees on the other hand bought a lot of nerdy bs.  but then again, this was windfall they probably didnt plan for. so we can not assume that the employees didnt put anything in a 401k all year, or an ira, and for all we know those student loans are at 1.9% interest.

all we do know is they were given a wad of cash, and how they spent it.

not enough info

What I see is a company... made up of people. It looks like the company distributed money evenly to all of the people that make up the company. I also see how these people react to a windfall of cash and I don't see an ounce of mustacism in any of those purchases. Therefore if all of the people that make up the company are those type of people then the company itself can't be mustacian. Sure, they make a good game and are "trendy" and donate money to charity but I would not consider the company in alignment with mustacism.
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Re: Cards Against Humanity makes 54k for literally nothing
« Reply #23 on: December 04, 2015, 09:08:33 AM »
I got a kick out of it and I really like the CAH team and business in general.  They provide their base game for free for anyone willing to spend just a little time and energy, and they've given a lot of their profits to charity.  They were as straightforward as they could possibly be that their black friday "sale" resulted in you getting nothing.

I just wish they sold sheets of blank cards with the backs pre-printed.  You get a few when you buy the game, but when you make your own it takes a ton of ink to print the backside of the black cards, and they always look and feel different.  meh, still love it.

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« Reply #24 on: December 04, 2015, 09:08:41 AM »
Also the people had to spend it somewhat funny to keep up the company reputation and their fanbase happy.  If they all just saved it, no one ever "donates" again. I'm fine with their unMustachian purchases, because it's for entertainment purposes.
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Re: Cards Against Humanity makes 54k for literally nothing
« Reply #25 on: December 04, 2015, 09:10:10 AM »
Cards Against Humanity is a group of clever people who entertain with outrageousness.  The "sale" was on Friday and the list came out Saturday.  That list was pre-planned (and probably at least somewhat fake, IMHO) for entertainment!   


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« Reply #26 on: December 04, 2015, 09:11:22 AM »
Also the people had to spend it somewhat funny to keep up the company reputation and their fanbase happy.  If they all just saved it, no one ever "donates" again. I'm fine with their unMustachian purchases, because it's for entertainment purposes.
I just felt little pang of empathy for Trin, who spent $3,524 on a divorce attorney.  Several reportedly donated a large chunk of their share to charities.

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Re: Cards Against Humanity makes 54k for literally nothing
« Reply #27 on: December 04, 2015, 09:52:11 AM »
It should have all been donated.  I am guessing many donors expected that since it has happened in the past.

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Re: Cards Against Humanity makes 54k for literally nothing
« Reply #28 on: December 04, 2015, 11:29:36 AM »
Cards Against Humanity is a group of clever people who entertain with outrageousness.  The "sale" was on Friday and the list came out Saturday.  That list was pre-planned (and probably at least somewhat fake, IMHO) for entertainment!   


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Re: Cards Against Humanity makes 54k for literally nothing
« Reply #29 on: December 04, 2015, 11:30:36 AM »
It should have all been donated.  I am guessing many donors expected that since it has happened in the past.

But honestly, why? why should they give to charity? why should anyone have to give to charity??

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Re: Cards Against Humanity makes 54k for literally nothing
« Reply #30 on: December 04, 2015, 01:29:29 PM »
I think the idea is you give them $5 because you want to see some crazy stuff happen and feel like you're a part of it.  It's a fun little stunt.  I don't get why this would bother anyone.

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« Reply #31 on: December 04, 2015, 01:35:28 PM »
It should have all been donated.  I am guessing many donors expected that since it has happened in the past.
Yeah, I don't get this sentiment either.  They never attempted to say that they were giving money to charity.  It was pretty clear that 'you get absolutely nothing' by paying $5.  As it was, a lot of the money was given to charity, and the CAH team routinely gives to charities.  But to expect your money to go to charity when paying $5 and being promised 'absolutely nothing in return'... that's just foolish.

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« Reply #32 on: December 04, 2015, 01:59:28 PM »
Oops posted to wrong thread.
« Last Edit: December 04, 2015, 02:02:08 PM by 2ndTimer »

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« Reply #33 on: December 04, 2015, 02:02:06 PM »
Pets.  We have two generic cats we rescued.  Costs us around $50/month for litter, food, shots, flee collars, etc.  We knew from previous experience what it would cost and and concluded it was worth it for the joy we get from them.

That's cool that you rescued cats and that they have brought joy to your household, but is this the right thread for that post?

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« Reply #34 on: December 04, 2015, 02:03:21 PM »
Pets.  We have two generic cats we rescued.  Costs us around $50/month for litter, food, shots, flee collars, etc.  We knew from previous experience what it would cost and and concluded it was worth it for the joy we get from them.

That's cool that you rescued cats and that they have brought joy to your household, but is this the right thread for that post?

Wow, you are fast.  I just saw what I had done and came back to fix it but you beat me.