HiddenCashYVR:
I’m hiding envelopes around town and tweeting clues about where to find them. Each envelope contains a $100 bill. It’s an opportunity to do something nice for others, and in due course encourage them to do something nice for someone else.
These twitter accounts have been popping up all over the US and Canada. There are even ones that are hiding beer and another here in Vancouver, marijuana.
I think there’s another one in Vancouver that’s apparently hidden the puck from the Canucks. Hint: it’s not in the net…
“I’m hiding envelopes around town and tweeting clues about where to find them. Each envelope contains a $100 bill. It’s an opportunity to do something nice for others, and in due course encourage them to do something nice for someone else.”
I suggest it would be easier to just walk up to strangers on the street and hand them the cash without advertising what you do to the world. It would be much more honest and generous than this marketing stunt.
You should take your suggestion and be generous with your own money instead of trying to find fault in how others choose to be.
“t would be easier…”
Maybe but that’s not what the Hider wants to do. It’s his money – he can hand it out however he so chooses.
“without advertising what you do to the world. It would be much more honest and generous than this marketing stunt.”
Where is the “advertising” and “marketing”? What company/person/product/service is being marketed?
What’s wrong with it just being some rich or well off guy wanting to have some fun with a money based scavenger hunt?
Or he’s doing something good while having fun at the same time. Giving strangers money doesn’t ALWAYS have to be such a cut and dry thing. What’s wrong with a little fun?
Oh yes. This random stranger just wants to give you him money if you play a little game.
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Look at that smile. How can you not trust a guy smiling? With money.
Maybe I’m being unfair to the guy that is operating Hidden Cash. Maybe I’m reading too much into the intentions of the man that is placing money in envelopes and posting clues on Twitter on where to find them.
But I can’t help but feel that helping people in need is not a mode of entertainment. It would be much nobler to be charitable without the expectation of recognition.
If this where about a man hiding a signed pink slip to a yacht (do yachts have pink slips?) in an affluent neighborhood, and rich people were the ones tossing garbage bags to find it, that would be pretty funny. But that is not what is happening here. We have low-income people diving in dumpsters and jumping into bushes for a mere hundred dollars. What’s the pleasure in watching that?
“helping people in need is not a mode of entertainment.”
If that is what he was doing, I’d agree. But, as his FAQ states, that’s not what he’s doing.
“much nobler to be charitable without the expectation of recognition.”
That’s your expectation of nobility and charity. And, as the guy says in his FAQ (which you did read, right?), you have no idea whether or not or how much he already gives to charity.
“We have low-income people diving in dumpsters…”
You have no idea what you’re talking about. His last find was at a park bench in White Rock, BC. Fairly affluent neighbourhood.
“What’s the pleasure in watching that?”
As the FAQ states, which you obviously didn’t bother to read, the hider doesn’t stick around to watch.
Bottom line is, it’s his money to do with as he pleases.