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The $5 Homelessness Math Bit
from The Off Season | The Tim Dillon Show #316 · #316
4 min
Tim does absurd, increasingly convoluted math about donating $5 to homeless causes for every $400,000/$800 million in revenue, insisting every little bit helps.
- Tim explains his merch store operates at roughly a 50% profit margin on $800,000 revenue.
- For every $400,000 in profit, he's donating $5 to address homelessness in Los Angeles.
- He invokes the phrase 'every little bit helps' and compares it to the acting saying about small roles and small actors.
- Tim responds to hypothetical critics asking if he's giving too much by saying he'd rather be on the side of giving.
- He walks through the math: $5 times $1,000 equals $5,000, establishing a baseline donation formula.
- Tim recalculates for a hypothetical $800 million in merch revenue, which would yield $400 million in profit.
- Working through the donation amount from $400 million profit, he arrives at $5,000 to help homelessness in Los Angeles.
- He challenges other creators to adopt similar donation pledges as part of his mission.
- Tim claims he's staying in New York City instead of his desert studio compound because he believes in this homelessness cause.