Because people are at differing financial means, often as a result of systemic inequity, or sometimes just timely circumstances.
And we know a dollar isn't a dollar in the current economic system. Fixed fees have a hidden assumption that value is the same for everyone. We know it's not and don't want finances to have a too heavy a hand in deciding who gets access and who doesn't.
Ideally it would be free for everyone, but that wouldn't support the tangible costs of labor, technology, and intangible years of practice that makes Rev. angel's teachings worthy of sharing.
We estimate the baseline cost to be equivalent to 1 full time position plus tech expenses. Our goal is to reach 162 "Earth-touchers" pay an average of $252 to anchor the LOVEstream project. (Learn why $162 is an important symbolic number once you join.)
The roughly $40K that results will allow us to hire 2 part-time people to handle the two major needs for the Archive project: Management & Production. An ad hoc team of volunteers provide the energy to review, transcribe, and edit machine transcriptions.