This article may seem to speak of well-intentions at first. But once you sit down and think about it, it is a distortion. The word "Random" plays a stronger role here and the term "Kindness" is just an end-effect of the Flash mob syndrome . Acts of kindness should and must be generated at the people who need it at a particular time and place. While I agree that all parties involved, including the conduits, benefit from the overall act, I believe that the act should be dished out by a party voluntarily via a conduit (or not) to another party in need to be the recipient of that act. The Pay-it-Forward movement can only reach a high maximization point when people give away what they dont need to the ones in need. It doesnt matter whether it is random or intended. I can give it away to an intended charity or the next poor person I see on the street. In other words, I dont want to be paying for Bill Gates' next latte just because he came into the right place at the right time. Hasnt he already been rewarded richly for that ? i-wink. Now - what he is doing - I agree, are acts of kindness and I wish that more of the world's rich can believe and act in the same model too. (c) William Tay 2000-2006 | Solution Architect Consultant http://www.softwaremaker.net/blog Read More...