The organization pairs won't be exactly 1-to-1 because building is harder than destroying, different organizations are more efficient and money is non-linear. If you had a "dump oil in national parks" and a "clean up oil dumped in national parks", you'd need $1000 for every $1 of effort dumping oil. So at best this system is a discovery mechanism for comparatively valuing organizations, but it's not really set up that way because there's a big difference between an Antidollar™ donated to cancel out a dollar and a dollar donated after you've reached 0 dollars difference from the counter party.
Deadweight Loss as a Service
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#22Satire at its finest, I was 2/3 of the way through the article and still trying to tell whether it was a spoof, or the public unveiling of a terrible, TERRIBLE startup.
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#23Reads to me like: even more power to people with deep pockets, if this was for real.
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#24Satire at its finest, I was 2/3 of the way through the article and still trying to tell whether it was a spoof, or the public unveiling of a terrible, TERRIBLE startup.
I didn't realize until I read the comments. I am not smart...
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#25There's at least one learning tool where you pick a charity you hate and it donates your money if you don't do your weekly lessons. More to this idea, paying micropayments to remove money from articles would be interesting. It would flatten bias. Reporters don't want to piss people off, reporting true facts would minimise this. It'd be interesting to see what style of article would emerge. (And people can't be bother…
Sadly, the name ‘hatreon’ appears to have already been taken by a defunct Patreon alternative, because otherwise that's exactly what this ‘business model’ could be called.
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#26Reads to me like: even more power to people with deep pockets, if this was for real.
filed under “#fiction”
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#27Satire at its finest, I was 2/3 of the way through the article and still trying to tell whether it was a spoof, or the public unveiling of a terrible, TERRIBLE startup.
The company name alone already tipped me off. It's all very ridiculous, and yet posted here.
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#28The organization pairs won't be exactly 1-to-1 because building is harder than destroying, different organizations are more efficient and money is non-linear. If you had a "dump oil in national parks" and a "clean up oil dumped in national parks", you'd need $1000 for every $1 of effort dumping oil. So at best this system is a discovery mechanism for comparatively valuing organizations, but it's not really set up tha…
It's satire.
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#29I believe you may have something with Anti-dollar. Joking aside, there’s almost always a company on the other side of the coin. Boycotting or otherwise public outcry’s and cancel culture would look a whole lot different if it were a value-based voting platform where competing interests vie for the value. Add reporting for government agencies on what’s “hot” and it sends a clear picture on what the national sentiment…
cancel culture is a meaningless phrase , it's just culture.
"Cancel culture" may have been meaningless in the past, but now with the new Antidollars™, it literally exists.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah but imagine if there was something like this for real, only the dollars weren't greedily kept, but spent in some way that people on both sides support. Like, maybe pro-choice and anti-abortion supporters would both support the excess money going to support new mothers or adoption programs.
Then imagine the incentives for campaigners to skip the two-sided prediction market and just spend their money on advertising directly to voters and lobbying politicians. Or the implications of implementing the only way to make this actually work by taking the pesky voters out of the decision process altogether and just letting the money decide the outcome...
> letting the money decide the outcome
some people call that data driven decision making and they like it
others call it “skynet” and they fear it