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Use it to lobby people of influence to release even more funds for your hobby-horse charity. More abstract; use it to fund the creation of a site that's a merge
by icanhackit 11y ago
Use it to lobby people of influence to release even more funds for your hobby-horse charity. More abstract; use it to fund the creation of a site that's a merger of Getup.org and Kickstarter so that we can crowd-source lobbying. That way the common person can compete with the petrochemical and military industrial companies by dropping a dollar or ten on their chosen hobby-horse issue. Small donations multiplied by many participants will result in considerable funds.
Politicians are an interface to policy and money is the API.
- antjanus 11y agoThe idea of crowdsourcing lobbying is fucking fantastic.
- ZeroGravitas 11y agoThere's a rule of thumb called the Tullock Paradox that suggests the ROI from lobbying is stupidly large, though no one is really sure why. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tullock_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tullock_paradox On the other hand, and this is something I've always felt about Bill Gates, I'd need to see a full economic accounting of all the loss to global society from their monopolostic rent-seeking behaviour, before I'd believe that their giving the profits away to charity would counterbalance that behaviour.
- innguest 11y agoSo you believe the whole of Microsoft's contribution to the world has been a net negative? It seems to me they've made possible for countless businesses to do their day-to-day work more efficiently.