Majority of DemocraticUnderground Expenses are "Salaries"

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[Newhawk]

Majority of DemocraticUnderground Expenses are "Salaries"

According to an expense breakdown recently posted at the site, the majority of DemocraticUnderground.com monthly expenses are for administrator's "salaries".

$10,000 on salaries (57.5%)

$4,500 on web servers and bandwidth (25.9%)

$2,000 or so on miscellaneous expenses (11.5%)

$900 for rent (5.1%)

The site says it relies on "donations". DU is registered as a "for profit" venture.

"Democratic Underground gets lots of visitors and we rely mostly on donations to pay our expenses. We therefore invite you to make a contribution to our efforts in whatever amount you can afford."

Visitors or members are urged to give as much as they "can afford".

Moderators and contributing writers for the site are not compensated.

[Newhawk]

Looks like the opponents of evil capitalism are cashing in.

[mnehring]

10K a month.. Skinner is doing pretty well considering almost every other person there 'on staff' are volunteers.

[andrew2527]

ibtz

[2banana]

What happened to from each according to their ability and to each according to their need?

[mkjessup]

10K a month.. Skinner is doing pretty well considering almost every other person there 'on staff' are volunteers.

How about $12,900?

You don't really think that $2000 for "miscellaneous" and $900 for "rent" are legitimate? I'd bet that it's all rolled over into compensation for the joker who "administers" the sewer, err, website.

[Lurker]

10K a month ain't bad if it's one or even two full time staff members.

I know lots of folks who'd be happy to be pulling down 60K a year for running a low ranked discussion board.

L

[digger48]

Depends on who's making the decision about what you "can afford"

[mnehring]

The funny part is no one would give a rat's a** what they make if they actually were a proponent of the capitalist system instead of always trashing it. This reminds me of that boot company (red star?) that advertises and markets it's products as for the anti-capitalist/anarchist types, selling their boots for more than Air-Jordans.. all it is, is 'evil big business' marketing to the 'anti-business' customer base..

[Newhawk]

Too funny. When I saw a lib site trashing them for it, I had to get on here and post it.

[Rakkasan1]

so when's JimRob going to start paying us?

[randog]

"Communist Chic" is big business these days. Lots of college kiddies, Trustafarians, hippies, aging hippies, and honest-to-gawd real communists ready, willing and able to shell out their "fair share" (OK, "fair share" plus a little bit--it's for a good cause...their egos) to be "socially relevant".

[Maceman]

And this post is of interest to FR why, exactly?

[mnehring]

Anti-Establishment is the current pop culture trend.. of course, the way trends go, the next will be Country-Club Chic and the Anti-Establishment will be out of style.. it is all cycles and has little reflection of the real mood of the country (with the exception that a sizable population of the country is pop culture obsessed...)

[tiredoflaundry]

What an odd first post. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

[Treader]

lol...z-zz-zzz-zzzzottability?

[martin_fierro]

[TexasCajun]

Generating any revenue at all from the consumer-nonproducers that the site attracts is surprising.

[Maceman]

Personally, I don't know how much JimRob makes from FR, but I hope its a ton of money, God bless him.

[Sax]

"Trustafarians"

HA!