I published two pieces in June
Substack gained 4 more unpaid subscribers
I decided to save June’s basic income of $66.13
Not only has this basic income helped me accomplish so much in a short amount of time but there is something so amazing about the feeling of people believing in me
This month was the first month I did not spend any of the crowdfunded basic income and decided to save it until at least the following month.
Initially, I thought this might be because I have some large purchases on the horizon and want to combine a couple of months of basic income to get something. The more I thought about it though, the more I considered that it might be a reaction driven by a scarcity mindset.
Unlike all of the previous months, June was the first month where my crowdfunded basic income remained the same.
I humored the idea that previously I may have given myself permission to spend the basic income because I knew the following month there would be even more to spend since the trend had been at least one new paid subscriber on the Patreon or Substack monthly.
Thankfully the platforms are growing, I had 4 more people sign up for an unpaid subscription to the Substack in June. For the month, Patreon had 12 subscribers with 10 paid and Substack had 30 subscribers with 6 paid. It is interesting comparing the two platforms’ engagement. In the near future I’ll do an in-depth comparison of the two, but for the time being Patreon seems to be the one chosen for paid subscriptions more often and gets slightly more views per piece on average.
The 16 paid subscriptions generated $66.13 after the platforms took their cut.
I’ve only been crowdfunding a basic income for 5 months now. The pie charts that show how all of the money crowdfunded has been spent are fascinating. When I realized that saving the current month accounted for 23% of the total crowdfunded I decided to look back at the amounts raised each month. From when I first started the basic income has grown 45% and that’s just wild.
I don’t think I’ll ever be able to fully articulate how helpful this process has been. Not only has this basic income helped me accomplish so much in a short amount of time, but there is something so amazing about the feeling of people believing in me. That part I hadn’t expected when I started this, and to everyone who has taken the time to engage in my Patreon or Substack in any way, I am truly grateful for your involvement in helping me not only crowdfund a basic income for myself but also helping me normalize crowdfunding a basic income while pushing for societal changes and systemic justice as I write about anti-poverty measures and ways we can change the world with empathy in numbers.
I’ll never stop saying it, it’s not about a few of us giving a lot. It’s about a lot of us giving very little, with empathy in numbers we can do anything.