Author: Apricot and Pear

“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 U.S. dollars: 1 experience point, I need to donate nearly 6,000 U.S. 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 things like 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 made a mistake 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 my account was three hundred dollars and not the lump sum of $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 a prompt like this.

“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 wealthy people.

In many developed countries, tax rates are 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 is the concept? 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 hard-working working-class person in one day of success.

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 a penny in tax.

Therefore, we often see wealthy Americans making naked donations, even though 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'll go. Are you greedy for my money? Are you shameless?"

For private charitable funds, management in Western countries is relatively loose.

Among the top universities in the world, 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 "House Donation Gang" or "Special Cases (Special Caregivers)".

If you have the right to take a look at the school's donation accounts, or have attended the thank-you reception held by the school directors.

You can find that the charitable foundation in the name of the father or 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 second generation of rich people 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 is true 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 U.S. dollars every year to invest in two environmental protection projects. One of the projects is for dolphin protection, worth 100,000 U.S. dollars. The other project is to buy a blue ocean yacht with five dimensions.

The secret supermodel went to sea together to shoot a marine promotional video on the Atlantic Ocean, and the cost was 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 makes donations 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 had been transferred, and Gu Weijing could only suffer the loss. He knew that he was unable to find evidence that the other party had violated the law, so he kept the so-called [Krell Clean Water Fund] in mind and closed the page.

There is no point dwelling on what has already happened.

He has 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 basically the same thing.

…

[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 work 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.

"Fiverr.com"

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 most part-time job search platforms for freelancers in the world.

The most famous joke is that a software engineer from 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 free to eat, drink and have fun everywhere.

He did nothing and was still rated 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, 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 is 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 you delay your daily study in order to find a profitable job, you will put the cart before the horse and lose more than you gain.

There are more than a million part-timers registered on Fiverr from all over the world, and most of them do simple work of English-native translation. 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 just registered as a poster for the store, and you can see the sketch immediately.

The reason why I chose Cat Detective as my signature is that potential buyers who request paintings on Fiverr generally like all kinds of animal illustrations. And this kind of small creativity makes others more willing to believe that this is their real painting.

Not just random pictures found online.

Many part-time illustrators on Fiverr have a playful nature, are introverted, and are not good at communicating with others, so their homepage design is very sloppy.

Not only are there no posters, but 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. Everyone wants to buy Van Gogh's works for the price of cabbage, including wealthy gringos.

Gu Weijing finally uploaded several of his previous works that he was quite 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.
Chapter completed!