What makes it leftist? If anything my immediate reaction is that abundance is in some sense right-coded in that it’s about unleashing markets. Maybe more British right and pre-Trump American right than current right.
(Mostly a nitpick, as I don’t want Open Phil doing centrist or libertarian or centre-right coded things rather than what’s most effective either, and I think strongly upvoted your comment.)
I contend. OP (no pun intended) cites both the Abundance Institute and Progress Studies as inspiration, a cursory look at the think tank sponsors and affiliations of the people involved in those show that they are mostly a libertarian-ish right-of-center bunch.
When I said “left” I was thinking “center-left in the US, of the type close to Bay Area tech.” Agreed that the right of other countries are much more open to this sort of thing.
I think the current US MAGA focus seems pretty clearly not what this is targeted to, at least. They seem pretty distant from many of our epistemics.
What makes it leftist? If anything my immediate reaction is that abundance is in some sense right-coded in that it’s about unleashing markets. Maybe more British right and pre-Trump American right than current right.
(Mostly a nitpick, as I don’t want Open Phil doing centrist or libertarian or centre-right coded things rather than what’s most effective either, and I think strongly upvoted your comment.)
I contend. OP (no pun intended) cites both the Abundance Institute and Progress Studies as inspiration, a cursory look at the think tank sponsors and affiliations of the people involved in those show that they are mostly a libertarian-ish right-of-center bunch.
Sorry, that was confusing on my end.
When I said “left” I was thinking “center-left in the US, of the type close to Bay Area tech.” Agreed that the right of other countries are much more open to this sort of thing.
I think the current US MAGA focus seems pretty clearly not what this is targeted to, at least. They seem pretty distant from many of our epistemics.