As an extra benefit, the Proportional Representation can be implemented in a decentralized way—and people can opt into it on a case-by-case basis, without the approval of any central authority.
To implement this, donors should simply give to the place they believe to be most deserving. You might be concerned that this is antidemocratic! But in fact it’s entirely democratic, and you’re just taking responsibility for paying out the proportion of the total that you represent. Others can in parallel take responsibility for their shares. Thus in a distributed manner you reach deeply democratic outcomes.
You may lose the information-gathering function though—in @RedStateBlueState’s model, we learn what proportion of the Forum user base voted for Charity X (and what portion of those users’ votes it received). That would be difficult to get in your decentralized take—an org would have to determine ForumUser status, and figure out the share of each user’s vote it received.
Ah but the genius of it is that you still have all of the information—it’s just also distributed! Each person knows exactly who they voted for, and as a bonus they avoid having to entrust any of their data to a centralized system which could be controlled by any kind of nefarious types. (I heard that the US had issues with election integrity in 2020, and if a major nation can’t manage this, I think it’s really a bit much to expect a shoestring-budget org like CEA to manage it.)
As an extra benefit, the Proportional Representation can be implemented in a decentralized way—and people can opt into it on a case-by-case basis, without the approval of any central authority.
To implement this, donors should simply give to the place they believe to be most deserving. You might be concerned that this is antidemocratic! But in fact it’s entirely democratic, and you’re just taking responsibility for paying out the proportion of the total that you represent. Others can in parallel take responsibility for their shares. Thus in a distributed manner you reach deeply democratic outcomes.
You may lose the information-gathering function though—in @RedStateBlueState’s model, we learn what proportion of the Forum user base voted for Charity X (and what portion of those users’ votes it received). That would be difficult to get in your decentralized take—an org would have to determine ForumUser status, and figure out the share of each user’s vote it received.
Ah but the genius of it is that you still have all of the information—it’s just also distributed! Each person knows exactly who they voted for, and as a bonus they avoid having to entrust any of their data to a centralized system which could be controlled by any kind of nefarious types. (I heard that the US had issues with election integrity in 2020, and if a major nation can’t manage this, I think it’s really a bit much to expect a shoestring-budget org like CEA to manage it.)