indyrams
Reptile Researcher
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Post by indyrams on Dec 12, 2012 15:17:24 GMT -5
Well, atleast one side of it. The Baudelaire's were wealthy, what did they do to become so rich? One of their headquarters was very fancy and huge. Wasn't it a mansion too? The one in the mountains. I mean, for a organization that is to put out fires caused by villains, they pay well! Well, I believe they all had actual careers too.. Or inheritance.
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Post by Christmas Chief on Dec 12, 2012 15:59:18 GMT -5
There are any number of possibilities. ASOUE never addresses how any of the wealthy families come by their fortunes, or even the exact extent of their enormity. However, there are a few possibilities we might consider: 1) inheritance, as you suggest. The Baudelaire children would have become wealthy this way, and used their money to benefit society as their parents did. 2) Side jobs, such as paid research, or perhaps private investigations. 3) Theft. If murder isn't below them, and they're donating it all to a good cause anyway ... well, there are situations where this might be feasible. 4) Selling of valuables to fellow volunteers, which brings us to 5) There are people of in V.F.D. of all income levels, but we only happen to hear of those who are well-off.
The headquarters, mansions, etc. undoubtedly come from the philanthropists in the organization, i.e., those who have money and choose to spend it on their cause. I believe many of the meeting places were fairly low-key, though, so as not to attract the attention of outsiders.
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Post by Hermes on Dec 12, 2012 17:04:13 GMT -5
I believe that a lot of wealthy families were connected with VFD and helped to support it; we know of the Baudelaires, Quagmires and Snickets (Madam Lulu refers to the Snicket fortune, and TUA shows that they also had a mansion), and of course the Duchess's family. Also in TSS Olaf mentions the Spats fortune and the Kornbluth fortune, and C.M. Kornbluth was certainly in VFD; (it's not clear if the Spatses ever were, and they would seem to have dropped out by the time of ASOUE if so).
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Q.R.V.
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Post by Q.R.V. on Dec 12, 2012 17:54:16 GMT -5
Another possibility is that VFD as an organization took side jobs - for example, from wealthy clients like "Mrs. Sallis". Although metaphorically putting out fires was its true purpose, it could have functioned as a sort of private detective agency to pay the bills. But VFD would have been capable of more than just typical private detective work, since it had so many resources: submarines, movie production facilities, restaurants, trained animals, an entire island. It could have offered its services almost as a private form of the CIA or the FBI.
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Post by Lucas on Dec 13, 2012 0:51:05 GMT -5
They coul have done a similar strategy to what Esme did...
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Post by Dante on Dec 14, 2012 12:26:27 GMT -5
I think probably the reason why V.F.D. is specifically a volunteer organisation, which, according to The Little Snicket Lad, does not pay its members, is precisely because it selects its members from amongst the wealthy so that they don't have to worry about pecuniary concerns getting in the way of their charitable works.
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Post by Tryina Denouement on Dec 14, 2012 12:29:25 GMT -5
I think probably the reason why V.F.D. is specifically a volunteer organisation, which, according to The Little Snicket Lad, does not pay its members, is precisely because it selects its members from amongst the wealthy so that they don't have to worry about pecuniary concerns getting in the way of their charitable works. That could be possible! How could I have not thought of that before?
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Post by Charlie on Dec 14, 2012 19:17:22 GMT -5
Possibly. Although as evidenced with the small child in the playground in TUA, it also seems as if they often pick members just because they would make good volunteers
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Post by Ernist on May 1, 2013 7:55:01 GMT -5
I think its the shared money of all there members
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Post by mrremora on Jun 26, 2013 16:53:00 GMT -5
I think probably the reason why V.F.D. is specifically a volunteer organisation, which, according to The Little Snicket Lad, does not pay its members, is precisely because it selects its members from amongst the wealthy so that they don't have to worry about pecuniary concerns getting in the way of their charitable works. I agree.For example there are the aristocratic Baudelaire and Quagmire families, but there's also others like the Duchess of Winnipeg also are either royalty or very affluent people.
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Post by mrremora on Jun 26, 2013 16:53:25 GMT -5
I think probably the reason why V.F.D. is specifically a volunteer organisation, which, according to The Little Snicket Lad, does not pay its members, is precisely because it selects its members from amongst the wealthy so that they don't have to worry about pecuniary concerns getting in the way of their charitable works. I agree.For example there are the aristocratic Baudelaire and Quagmire families, but there's also others like the Duchess of Winnipeg also are either royalty or very affluent people.
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Post by Charlie on Jun 27, 2013 3:32:53 GMT -5
I think probably the reason why V.F.D. is specifically a volunteer organisation, which, according to The Little Snicket Lad, does not pay its members, is precisely because it selects its members from amongst the wealthy so that they don't have to worry about pecuniary concerns getting in the way of their charitable works. I agree.For example there are the aristocratic Baudelaire and Quagmire families, but there's also others like the Duchess of Winnipeg also are either royalty or very affluent people.
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Post by Tryina Denouement on Jul 1, 2013 3:03:40 GMT -5
I think probably the reason why V.F.D. is specifically a volunteer organisation, which, according to The Little Snicket Lad, does not pay its members, is precisely because it selects its members from amongst the wealthy so that they don't have to worry about pecuniary concerns getting in the way of their charitable works. I agree.For example there are the aristocratic Baudelaire and Quagmire families, but there's also others like the Duchess of Winnipeg also are either royalty or very affluent people. Is this a Memetic Mutation?
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Post by Dante on Jul 1, 2013 4:03:45 GMT -5
mrremora's curious repeated post is clearly the subject of amusement here, yes. I'll leave it intact for that reason.
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