As for why I'm requesting donations ... it's actually quite simple. Right now I am in the unfortunate position of having to work two jobs, which makes it very slow going to create these books.
If I could replace that income from my second job with donations for these books, I could quit that job and dedicate all that time to creating books, which would greatly accelerate their production.
Initially, this was a selfish endeavor, in the sense that I find myself so busy with my jobs, and don't have the time to spend on spiritual reading, where it's all I can do to get my Holy Rosary in ... and yet I found myself having to drive a fair bit, and/or if I'm out, say, mowing the grass (I use and electric/battery mower, so it's not terribly loud), etc.
I figured that with audiobooks, I could do my spiritual reading without having to find additional time.
Then I figured that I'd like to accelerate the pace of creating new materials, but find that I just can't go all that fast given that I have to work two jobs.
If this does happen to "take off", then the idea would be to have others join in, make some extra income, etc. This is not a "for profit" venture, and I am not a believer that anyone should make a ton of money that's disproportionate to the amount of labor and expense they put into to it. If we get contributions over and above what's fair compensation for my efforts, I would bring others on to help. If we get even more than I could "reinvest" in this way, then I would donate to the Church and to the poor. Call me "Communist" if you want (falling for that Hegelian propaganda), but I'm more "Distributist" really.
I also would pay according to the MIT "Living Wage" calculator, probably 50% margin above that, since I don't believe in that aspect of "capitalism" either, where some jackass could make millions doing nothing, while those who do the actual work can barely afford to live.
At the same time, I did not want to prevent anyone from benefitting from these simply for lack of funds. Thus the "donations" based on an honor system rooted in Catholic morality and conscience. I'm trying to make the donation amounts a reasonable balance between not giving us enough to work with to accelerate the work and being "too much", so, basically, roughly where 3 large coffees at Starbucks could be donated to get, say, the entire Douay-Rheims Challoner Bible.
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