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Now both the NY state and city are living off of a sole benefactor -- Wall St.

I'm a singer and one group I sing with has a benefactor who has financed all of our recording projects.

I am removing MIT as a benefactor from my will and ceasing donations to the alumni association.

\nIt is reasonable to assume that you are the benefactor of funds that go to this address otherwise you would be exchanging a service for naught!

I was somewhat fortunate in that an American benefactor donated 15 Apple II computers to my high school in 1983, providing we learned Logo.

The issue, as I see it, is that many developers in the Microsoft ecosystem consider Microsoft to be a trusted benefactor and are detached from the realities around software engineering today.

This is quite pointless because it essentially cancels outThis is ultimately what makes this so bizarre -- in the end such a chain has a single "benefactor", and then a number of what could best be described as victims: People who become a part of this process because of social obligation.

For example, people not work full-time because they are in school, because they are practicing an art or craft, because they are taking care of family, because they have a wealthy benefactor, because they are employed in an illegal trade like drugs or prostitution, or because they are trying to break into a difficult industry like film.

Axiom 1: Company is collecting and storing personal data that you voluntarily provideAxiom 2: Company does not charge you for this serviceAxiom 3: Company has no other visible means of incomeAxiom 4: Company has non-trivial operating expensesGiven that this covers a huge amount of "our digital life", there are a few possible solutions:- Keep getting services without paying money but paying with privacy- Identify another way to get the services we rely on to be paid for- Hope that a large benefactor company will buy the services we use and write the operational cost off out of the goodness of their hearts