Happy Crowdfunding Day!
In a superficial, self-centered world built on likes and hearts, I suppose it shouldn’t have surprised me that there would be an official “crowdfunding” day for narcissistic influencers, carpet-baggers, and yes, some people who actually are in desperate need. (I should look up if there are any studies on this… maybe after I finish Wallander!)
Alas, why donate your money to people you don’t know that may not deliver on promised goods or may not use your funds in the way they advertise on the site. I thought, wouldn’t it be useful for countries around the world to start a crowdfunding campaign?! After all, the world is about to enter a huge financial crisis (and I’m not talking about the oil crisis but the bigger one looming with private credit destabilizing the whole system as I write).
Which countries are most in need of your altruistic crowdfunding help? Let’s make a map, I thought! And so I did. Again, with a single prompt. I share a link to the entire Web Mapper GPT conversation here.
In the book I cover an entire prompt cartography pipeline, schemas and techniques you can use to produce and design maps using natural language, and how to articulate aesthetic and style linguistically to make production-level maps – not these one-off daily, throwaway maps here. The book may already be on Amazon for pre-order; I haven’t checked, because I’m too obsessed watching Kenneth Branagh play a Swedish detective these days… but I digress.
Oh yes, so I decided to make a map so you can crowdfund your favorite nation-state – or better yet, pick one that is most in need based on how high the national debt is compared to the country’s GDP.
“But this is stupid,” you say?! (I am not sure you do, I am just speculating. I do love how blogs give me creative license of sorts.) “I pay taxes already!”
Well, by the looks of it, most of us aren’t paying nearly enough or, to put it mildly, our governments are spending far more than we can afford to pay. So contribute more, I say, but let’s spread it around and donate to another country or two.
Together we can achieve more and fight international insolvency! I’ll get around to starting a GoFundMe page for Japan and Hungary right after this episode of… Wallander!
Entire Conversation in Web Mapper GPT
1 prompt; 1 answer (13m33s); 1 map package.
