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#105 Update all image paths linked to /wp-content/* (#107)
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As misfortunes don't seem to come singly in 2020, the [COVID-19 pandemic](https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019) is magnifying [social and economic inequality](https://graduateinstitute.ch/coronavirus-information-our-community-and-visitors/covid-19-magnifier-social-inequality) and accelerating an [economic collapse](https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/29/nearly-half-the-us-population-is-without-a-job-showing-how-far-the-labor-recovery-has-to-go.html). As an answer, some people are [demanding disruptive change](https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/police-abolitionist-movement-alternatives-cops-chicago/Content?oid=23289710), because governments have been slow and [unsatisfactory in their response](https://www.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=25793&LangID=E). There are several viewpoints on how to address these issues, but we came down to a dilemma: Should we rely on malfunctioning governments to be the answer? Or should we be resourceful and find tools, like Group Income, to build safety nets for ourselves and our communities?
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Communities keep society balanced. Let's have a look at it from the standpoint of [Raghuram Rajan](https://www.chicagobooth.edu/faculty/directory/r/raghuram-g-rajan). The Chicago Booth professor explains that society is upheld by three fundamental pillars: governments (political pillar), markets (economic pillar), and communities (sociological pillar).
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**The consequence? The sociological pillar is now too fragile and there's an imbalance in society.**
**We no longer can deny [this imbalance](https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/11/unmanaged-globalisation-damaging-local-communities-heres-how). But how do we rectify it?**
Recently we bid farewell to [Victor Morrow](/articles/victor-morrow-joins-group-income/) who's moved on to exciting new [DARPA](https://www.darpa.mil) related work. Victor is still with us, now in a volunteer capacity. Thanks to his help, we've made great progress on Group Income. However, with his departure as full-time contractor, we needed to find someone to fill his shoes.
It was fortunate, therefore, that [Tamas Kalman](https://twitter.com/dH2K), another volunteer, introduced us to **Anikó Fejes**, a very talented developer and community organizer from Hungary.
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With Anikó on board, we were able to bring Group Income to the point where our focus had to shift away from internals and to the UI and UX of the app. In other words, we needed an expert frontend designer, and we found exactly what we were looking for in **Sandrina Pereira**.
Sandrina is a frontend developer with a great passion for interaction design. She loves to create unique experiences for <strike>users</strike> humans like you through the web.
Money is simply a tool that exists in circumstances when there is scarcity within an economy. It is a way of measuring the scarcity-demand for something. It is therefore a way of restricting access to that something. But when a lot of people choose to charge for scarce items using money, it gives money itself value -- value it otherwise would not have.
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_"Well,"_ the shopkeep would say, _"You have to have a homeless person vouch for you. Their word is the currency that we take."_
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You can imagine that would create an interesting situation. Suddenly, the value of simply being a homeless person would go up. These people would also have more power over society. The same thing happens with any currency, even dollars. If the creation of dollars is controlled by a small group (as it is), and those dollars are what shopkeeps around the country ask for, then that group suddenly becomes very powerful over society.
Some say it's not the destination that matters so much, but the journey and friends you meet along the way.
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I couldn't agree more. But also, destinations aren't to be underestimated either! Back in 2019, during the Before Times, our team — a mixture of independent contractors and volunteers — got together in the beautiful land of Bulgaria for **Hackathon #8**!
In attendance were familiar characters as well as new ones, including a brilliant young engineer and Group Income volunteer from South Korea by the name of [Sebin Song](https://sebinsong.github.io/).
Sebin is one of the coolest people I've had to good fortune of meeting. He's an extremely intelligent, humble, and kind person whose talents in frontend development are exemplary.
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Most days we spent the morning, afternoon, and evenings working on Group Income.
Pierre, always a fan of high-end restaurants, insisted that we visit one on the trip. This turned out to be a rather good idea, as the team loved the care with which one of Bulgaria's Master Chefs prepared each and every dish:
> **"Our project is dedicated to people that care about each other and you can feel it from the inside: I've never been in a company that considers its people as human beings before being a workforce… and it just feels right."**
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Our hard work had paid off! We now have a mostly-functioning demo that anyone with a little bit of Git knowledge can [download and try out for themselves](https://github.com/okTurtles/group-income-simple)!
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> **"Working on this project has been one of the highlights of my professional life. I will be forever grateful for the opportunity to use my expertise, knowledge and time to contribute to this amazing project.**
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