"Are you sure you want to transfer $300 to the recipient [Crell Clean Water Fund]?"
Gu Weijing looked at the transfer prompt that popped up on his phone, and without too much hesitation, he clicked to confirm the payment.
He is a person with very low materialistic desires. He has more than three hundred dollars in his account, so he might as well donate it in exchange for experience points.
According to the exchange ratio of 10 US dollars: 1 experience point, I need to donate nearly 6,000 US dollars to advance the proficiency level lv.3 sketching to the next level.
Even if you get one hundred experience points to upgrade your level from lv.2 to lv.3, you still need a thousand dollars.
Gu Weijing definitely doesn't have that much money now, but charitable donations add up, and coupled with his experience of daily practice and improvement, he is still quite optimistic.
[You have successfully donated: US$5.31]
[You have gained additional experience points: 0.531]
Huh?
Gu Weijing felt that he had misjudged the situation, or something went wrong during the operation.
He reopened PayPal (international mobile payment software) and checked the payment details.
There is no doubt that what was transferred from his account was US$300 and not the lump sum of US$5.31.
[In order to prevent players from using tax avoidance or making false donations in the name of charity but actually using them for personal enjoyment, this system only calculates the expenses that are actually used on the recipients. 】——The system pops up such a prompt.
“Tax avoidance in the name of charity or false donations actually used for personal enjoyment?”
Gu Weijing was stunned for a second.
He knows that charitable donations are a tax avoidance method for some high-income earners.
In many developed countries, the tax rate is extremely high for inheritances above a certain amount.
The British Chancellor of the Exchequer during World War II even implemented a 98% inheritance tax.
What kind of concept is this? Your rich father died and left an inheritance of one million pounds. Sorry, you can only inherit 20,000 pounds, and the remaining 980,000 pounds are inheritance tax.
Congratulations, you have transformed from a young master into a working-class person in one day.
Charity is tax-free in most cases. If your father sets up a charitable foundation with one million pounds and appoints his son as the CEO of the foundation, then he does not have to pay even one penny in tax.
Therefore, we often see rich Americans making naked donations at all times, even if they are really good people with high moral standards.
"But am I really the actual donation?"
He immediately reacted and stared at the [Krell Clean Water Fund] on the computer, which is headquartered in Singapore and claims to be dedicated to providing healthy and clean drinking water to third-world countries in Africa, gritting his teeth.
"I'm going to take my money? Are you shameless?"
For private charitable funds, management in Western countries is relatively loose.
In the world's top universities, you can always see a group of people who drive sports cars on campus every day, pick up girls, do nothing but hang out in fraternities or sororities and hold parties, but they can still be regarded as outstanding alumni. Graduating students, these people are generally called "Donating House Gang" or "Special Cases (Special Cases)".
If you have the right to take a look at the school's donation accounts, or have attended the thank-you reception hosted by the school directors.
You can find that the charitable foundation in the name of the father and mother of this group of people may have donated a library to the campus or invested millions of dollars in a certain laboratory in the name of charitable donations.
This does not mean that the rich second generation must not work hard in school, nor does it mean that there must be insider trading in charitable donations to universities. On the contrary, these are rare cases, but they are real.
The same goes for hospitals.
Therefore, some people say that donating to patients and students is true charity; donating to hospitals and universities is actually an act of investment.
You can create a marine environmental protection foundation and spend $20 million a year to invest in two environmental projects. One of the projects is for dolphin conservation, worth $100,000. The other project is to buy a blue ocean yacht and go to the Atlantic Ocean with five Victoria's Secret supermodels to shoot a marine promotional video. The cost is US$19.9 million.
According to media reports, the average salary of private charity employees in the United States is about US$40,000 to US$50,000, which is much higher than the average income.
Gu Weijing has no right to despise them. After all, it is their own money. Even if only 1% is actually spent on people in need, it is better than using it to open a casino or something.
But for a foundation that donates money to the public, this is going too far.
"It seems that if possible in the future, I should do it myself instead of transferring money directly to such a foundation that does not know the details."
The money has been transferred, and Gu Weijing can only suffer the loss of silence. He knows that he has no ability to find evidence that the other party has violated the law, so he keeps this so-called [Krell Clean Water Fund] in his heart and closes the page.
There is no point dwelling on what has already happened.
There are only two goals in his heart now, one is to make money, and the other is to continue to improve his painting level.
In other words, they are simply the same thing.
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[Sketch experience +23]
[Sketch lv.3 semi-professional (374/1000)]
Gu Weijing put down his brush and looked at the big cat wearing glasses on the sketch paper in front of him.
The skill he mastered [Menzel's Basic Painting Experience] requires at least one day before it can be activated again.
Without the blessing of perfect level skills, even though the time he spent on this sketch was much longer than the small-sized colored pencil drawing.
But not only is the finished product far less stunning than that painting, the added proficiency is less than one-sixth of that painting.
Sketching is the basis of all art paintings. Gu Weijing, who now knows the gap between himself and a real master, plans to improve his sketching skills to lv.4 first.
"Big opening bonus, professional gallery contract artist, part-time illustrator, the first twenty customized works only cost ten dollars each. The manuscript will be delivered on time and will never be missed..."
Gu Weijing uploaded the sketch to the computer using the scanner in the calligraphy and painting shop, while editing his own copy on the fiverr store webpage.
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The cross-border part-time job platform was originally famous for the concept of earning five dollars per part-time job in five minutes. Now it is one of the part-time job platforms with the largest number of freelancers in the world.
The most famous joke is that a software engineer at a Silicon Valley Internet company applied to the company to work from home, and then subcontracted the coding work to a third brother on Fiverr for $2,000 per month. He himself was enjoying himself, eating, drinking, having fun and doing nothing. He was still selected as an outstanding employee until he was discovered three years later.
Painters, translators, tour guides, actuaries, copywriters, code masters, software engineers... There are all kinds of professions in these, and the needs of buyers are also diverse.
"Part-time online illustrator."
This is the best money-making strategy that Gu Weijing can think of at the moment.
This sketch of the cat detective wearing Sherlock Holmes glasses was the shop poster and signboard he designed for himself.
It is basically impossible for a middle school student like him to make money by selling paintings in a gallery seriously.
The purchasing power of Yangon locals is very limited. If they delay their daily studies in order to find a profitable job, they will put the cart before the horse and lose more than they gain.
There are more than a million part-timers registered on Fiverr from all over the world, and the vast majority of them do simple work as English-native language translators. There are also thousands of people online in the separate illustration category.
He uploaded his sketch of a cat to the homepage of the store he had just registered. As a poster for the store, you can see the sketch immediately.
The reason why I chose Cat Detective as my signature is that the potential buyers who request artwork on Fiverr generally like all kinds of animal illustrations. Moreover, this kind of small creativity makes others more willing to believe that this is their real painting rather than a random picture found online.
Many part-time illustrators on Fiverr have a playful nature and are introverted and not good at communicating with others. The homepage design is very sloppy.
Not only are there no posters, there are only a few words about the store introduction, and no personal portfolio has been uploaded.
They may also have good painting skills, but compared with these people, Gu Weijing's homepage has richer information and is obviously more reassuring for buyers.
And for those veteran painters who have more than five years of business experience and thousands of transaction records on fiverr.
His strategy is to engage in a price war. If others ask for fifty dollars, he will ask for ten dollars.
Anyway, what I need is to practice my brushwork, and making money is just a step to improve my painting skills.
Low price is always an advantage. Anyone wants to buy Van Gogh's works for the price of cabbage, including wealthy gringos.
Gu Weijing finally uploaded several of his previous paintings that he was satisfied with, and then wrote the English slogan on the homepage in Chinese, and then used translation software to translate it into French, Japanese, Spanish, German and Portuguese. , and finally clicked upload.
