I do see how this could be adversarial or uncooperative. Do X, or else I’ll stop buying medicine for dying kids. What?!
Right, I feel like it’s easy to not notice this framing, but it feels pretty weird once you do frame it in that way.
I do agree that there are some circumstances under which donation matches make sense, and increasing marginal returns to donations is perhaps one of them (which is not exactly what you said I think? but similar). I just think these circumstances tend to be relatively niche and I don’t see how e.g. the FarmKind case is one of them.
Right, I feel like it’s easy to not notice this framing, but it feels pretty weird once you do frame it in that way.
I do agree that there are some circumstances under which donation matches make sense, and increasing marginal returns to donations is perhaps one of them (which is not exactly what you said I think? but similar). I just think these circumstances tend to be relatively niche and I don’t see how e.g. the FarmKind case is one of them.