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Ex. PBS deal do sell a video or a signed book for a healthy profit that is in part a donation. Other ideas?

In the Bible, it is written that "a workman is worthy of his hire." In other words, pay people who work on your behalf. The amount of work that Stefan does to prepare his lectures is massive. Even with the amount of resources now available on the Internet, putting together a topic and presenting is a lot of work. As I am directly benefiting from this work, I feel an obligation to pay. This is the essence of the market. Nobody forced me to pay. As my wife and I are presently in challenging financial circumstances after my heart attacks and other illnesses pushing me into disability and us into bankruptcy, my generosity towards Stefan is limited. However, a small and monthly amount is being freely given. I believe that it is important for as many people as possible to make a MONTHLY commitment and here is why. The one-time donation is easily forgotten by the giver and is impossible to forecast by Stefan. By we listeners giving a regular, monthly donation, we enable Stefan to predict his cash flow and to use the funds in a structured way such as hiring associates to help him. For us the givers, the monthly note in our payment is a gentle reminder that we are invested in this great work. Of course, if you cannot give or you can give only 1 time, this is a matter for your own heart. For those who just haven't gotten around to it yet, please join me. It will make you feel good as I now feel good seeing the notice from Paypal. Bill

I just heard about from James Altucher's podcast a curating service called Quarterly, and I realized immediately that I would love to subscribe to a box of content (books, memorabilia, Queen cds, etc...) which was hand-curated by Stef. You may be wondering how this can actually make someone money. Tim Ferris, bestselling author and podcaster, brings in six figure income every year just from his subscriber boxes alone. You don't have to advertise or promote anything you don't already recommend and you can focus on sending valuable and informative physical content directly to your subscribers. I believe this would be a perfect add for Freedomain Radio to excite and grow its fanbase. They could even integrate it with the current donation system. For instance, imagine if when you listened to Stef interview Alex Epstein you knew you'd be receiving his book The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels in the mail within a month and inside that book would be annotations/inserts/downloadable mp3s written by Stef. How much cooler would that make listening and supporting the show!?! I'm sold; how about you? Would you sign up for a curated Stefan Molyneux box? If so, please appreciate this post or reply below! If there's enough interest, I bet the team here will be hard-pressed to turn down the idea.