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@alexhern this is such a common pattern. I guess it comes down to the fundamental Silicon Valley distaste for building any business which isn't a hypothetically infinitely scaling platform and which actually involves human judgement.
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@alexhern you don't want to take responsibility for your editorial judgement because you're ashamed you're having to do it. it's a kludgy hack you're using to bootstrap yourself to a realm where code turns directly into money.
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@alexhern unfortunately, giving large sums of money out to people for arguing for their political views does have an impact on the world, and would ideally be done by people who are thoughtful and intentional about it, not hurried and ashamed and pretending they aren't.