“The following is a backhanded, unfair, insult to write in the immediate days after, but to be show one critique[1]: it reads like the associated account manager (the Google ads sales person whose bonus or promotion depends on volume) got carried away, or someone looked at conventional spending levers and “turned up the knob” to very high levels, out of band[2].”
That sounds about right to me about what happened—I mean, I think it was definitely worth trying (with the only main downside being that the particular way SBF tried possibly crowded out other more effective ways of trying, but mistakes are how you learn), but yeah—it is if nothing else well known that you can’t use money to brute force election results.
I do think that approach of trying to get good local branding is a good idea, though OTOH, we also don’t want it to turn into donating lots of money to comparatively low value local projects—if for no other reason that that would dilute the brand.
“The following is a backhanded, unfair, insult to write in the immediate days after, but to be show one critique[1]: it reads like the associated account manager (the Google ads sales person whose bonus or promotion depends on volume) got carried away, or someone looked at conventional spending levers and “turned up the knob” to very high levels, out of band[2].”
That sounds about right to me about what happened—I mean, I think it was definitely worth trying (with the only main downside being that the particular way SBF tried possibly crowded out other more effective ways of trying, but mistakes are how you learn), but yeah—it is if nothing else well known that you can’t use money to brute force election results.
I do think that approach of trying to get good local branding is a good idea, though OTOH, we also don’t want it to turn into donating lots of money to comparatively low value local projects—if for no other reason that that would dilute the brand.