seems like an interesting idea. I had never heard of it before, and I’m generally decently aware of weird stuff like this, so they probably need to put more effort into publicity. I don’t know if truly broad public appeal will ever happen but I could imagine this being pretty popular among the kinds of people who would e.g use manifold.
one perverse incentive this scheme creates is that if you think other charity is better than political donations, you are incentivized to donate to the party with less in its pool, and you get a 1:1 match for free, at the expense of people who wanted to support a candidate.
also, in the grand scheme of things, the amount of money in politics isn’t that big, but it’s still a solid chunk. but the TAM is inherently quite limited.
seems like an interesting idea. I had never heard of it before, and I’m generally decently aware of weird stuff like this, so they probably need to put more effort into publicity. I don’t know if truly broad public appeal will ever happen but I could imagine this being pretty popular among the kinds of people who would e.g use manifold.
one perverse incentive this scheme creates is that if you think other charity is better than political donations, you are incentivized to donate to the party with less in its pool, and you get a 1:1 match for free, at the expense of people who wanted to support a candidate.
also, in the grand scheme of things, the amount of money in politics isn’t that big, but it’s still a solid chunk. but the TAM is inherently quite limited.
https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/09/18/too-much-dark-money-in-almonds/