Come mai in politica girano così pochi soldi?
Too Much Dark Money In Almonds
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Too Much Dark Money In Almonds
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Everyone always talks about how much money there is in politics. This is the wrong framing. The right framing is Ansolabehere et al’s: why is there so little money in politics?
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during the 2018 election, candidates, parties, PACs, and outsiders combined spent about $ 5 billion– $ 2.5 billion on Democrats, $ 2 billion on Republicans, and $ 0.5 billion on third parties.
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The US almond industry earns $ 12 billion per year. Americans spent about 2.5x as much on almonds as on candidates last year.
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But also, what about lobbying? Open Secrets reports $ 3.5 billion in lobbying spending in 2018.
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In fact, we’re still less than Elon Musk’s personal fortune; Musk could personally fund the entire US political ecosystem on both sides for a whole two-year election cycle.
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LA RICCHEZZA CHE CIRCOLA IN POLITICA
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LA RICCHEZZA CHE CIRCOLA IN POLITICA
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The Washington Post was sold for $ 250 million in 2013
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These properties seem to be priced entirely as cash cows– based on their ability to make money through subscriptions or ads. The extra value of using them for political influence seems to be priced around zero,
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Or: Jacobin spends a lot of time advocating socialism. The Economist spends a lot of time advocating liberalism. First Things spends a lot of time advocating conservatism. They all have one thing in common: paywalls. How could this be efficient?
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Tumblr.com, which recently sold for $ 3 million, ie the cost of a medium-sized house in San Francisco. Tumblr has 400 million monthly visitors, and at least tens of millions of active users. These people talk politics all the time,
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UN CASO ESTREMO
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UN CASO ESTREMO
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Nobody thinks that one of the central political discussion platforms of the far-left is worth more than $ 3 million? Nobody on the right wants to shut it down?
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we should expect ordinary people to donate more to politics. A lot of the ordinary people I know care a lot about politics.
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we should expect the rich to donate more to politics. Many politicians want to tax billionaires; billionaires presumably want to prevent that from happening.
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we should expect big corporations to donate more to politics.
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The government regulates corporations, so having friendly politicians in power can mean life or death for entire industries.
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money neither makes a candidate much more likely to win, nor buys much influence
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MESSO IN EVIDENZA DA MOLTI
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MESSO IN EVIDENZA DA MOLTI
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Most research (plus the 2016 results) confirms that money has little effect on victory,
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If everyone who cared about homelessness donated $ 100 to the problem, homelessness would be solved. Nobody does this, because they know that nobody else is going to do it,
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CI SONO POI PROBLEMI DI COORDINAMENTO
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CI SONO POI PROBLEMI DI COORDINAMENTO
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No single greedy corporation wants to pony up the money to change the laws to favor greedy corporations all on its own, while its competitors lie back and free-ride on its hard work.
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In this model, the difference between politics and almonds is that if you spend $ 2 on almonds, you get $ 2 worth of almonds.
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the same factors that keep money out of politics keep it out of charity too.
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This is one reason I’m so gung ho about people pledging to donate 10% of their income to charity.
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PROMETTERE PUBBLICAMENTE X COORDINARE
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PROMETTERE PUBBLICAMENTE X COORDINARE
