(And really, if he'd cancelled last week without immediately announcing what he was going to do, like you suggested in your post, that wouldn't have freaked people out -- or *shouldn't* have, anyway. That's totally within the "risk we signed up for.")
"No farm is going to put the shares ahead of their own survival"... I keep waffling about what I think about this. They're counting on the share payments for their survival, aren't they? And the shares are investment, not charity: weathering the ups and downs is one thing, but the share-purchaser does expect something in exchange for the money, in the long run (that is, if over several years one was never satisfied with what one received from farmshare, one would be perfectly justified in taking one's money elsewhere).
Perhaps it's the difference between buying a ticket to a fundraiser show to support one's community theatre group, and giving a donation -- if you show up to the fundraiser with your ticket and it's been cancelled in favor of throwing resources to the mainstage show, that might be a necessary decision on the group's part, but they've broken faith with the audience. Rather than asking for donations, they've...taken donations, from people who thought they were coming to see a show. And those people might donate if asked for donations, but that's not what they were asked for.
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Date: 2009-09-29 08:59 pm (UTC)"No farm is going to put the shares ahead of their own survival"... I keep waffling about what I think about this. They're counting on the share payments for their survival, aren't they? And the shares are investment, not charity: weathering the ups and downs is one thing, but the share-purchaser does expect something in exchange for the money, in the long run (that is, if over several years one was never satisfied with what one received from farmshare, one would be perfectly justified in taking one's money elsewhere).
Perhaps it's the difference between buying a ticket to a fundraiser show to support one's community theatre group, and giving a donation -- if you show up to the fundraiser with your ticket and it's been cancelled in favor of throwing resources to the mainstage show, that might be a necessary decision on the group's part, but they've broken faith with the audience. Rather than asking for donations, they've...taken donations, from people who thought they were coming to see a show. And those people might donate if asked for donations, but that's not what they were asked for.