Last year a skydiver did 200 dives in 12 hours in the name of charity. Apparently it was for children suffering from cancer, HIV and the make a wish foundation among other charities and diseases.
Great, as a skydiver myself I can image how awesome skydiving that much in such a short time would be. I also know how much that would cost. Taking the approximate cost how much it is to run the plan to altitude once at my own drop zone and multiplying that by 200 is $48,000. That is just to run the plane, not to mention the all of the special equipment, the multiple sky diving rigs and the people to pack them and so on.
So what good did this do? When google-ing (is that even a word?) it I found this article, and that was it.
http://www.metronews.ca/ottawa/canada/article/287803--skydiver-aims-high-for-charity
Amazingly enough this is a very common idea, and not by skydivers but non-jumpers as well. Which is weird.
Wouldn’t this be better if they just gave the money to a charity or perhaps a family how can’t afford treatment and then volunteered the time?
Really, though come on, did this do any good?
This I would argue was exploitative, maybe not intentionally, but basically a guy got to skydive a bunch and didn’t have to pay for it. Granted I don’t know how much money he made but it stands to reason that if it was a significant sum that would be a part of the article.
I don’t really know what my point was in all this; it just seemed related to what we were talking about in class.
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