It is a privileged solution. And a stupid one, too. Because $1 is worth a lot more for someone in India, than someone in USA. If you want to implement this more fairly, you'd be looking at something like GDP or BBP plus geolock. Streaming services perfected this mechanism already.

Not that word, in the context of contributing to an open source project that you're likely already benefiting from.

ie, if you want to contribute code, you must also contribute financially.

You get it refunded

It is simple: we simply add a whitelist for the child prodigies.