I wrote up my thoughts in this post: Making Impact Purchases Viable. Briefly, I argue that:
Restrictions that limit the number of sellers are necessary to fix the imbalance between the size of the buyer’s market and the seller’s market.
Restrictions are also important for providing sufficient incentive for a reasonable proportion of the impact to be counterfactual.
Another issue I don’t have a solution to is the potential of impact purchases to lead to bitterness or demotivate people.
I wrote up my thoughts in this post: Making Impact Purchases Viable. Briefly, I argue that:
Restrictions that limit the number of sellers are necessary to fix the imbalance between the size of the buyer’s market and the seller’s market.
Restrictions are also important for providing sufficient incentive for a reasonable proportion of the impact to be counterfactual.
Another issue I don’t have a solution to is the potential of impact purchases to lead to bitterness or demotivate people.