Change is slow and hard and usually driven by organic changes rather than clever ideas, and I expect it to be the same here.
In terms of why the idea is actually just not that big a deal, I think the big thing is that altruistic projects often do benefit hugely from not needing to do explicit credit attribution. So that’s a real cost. (It’s also a cost for for-profit businesses, leading to lots of acrimony and bargaining losses.)
They also aren’t quite consistent with moral public goods / donation-matching, which might be handled better by a messy status quo, and I think that’s a long-term problem though probably not as big as the other issues.
Why aren’t impact certificates a bigger deal?
Change is slow and hard and usually driven by organic changes rather than clever ideas, and I expect it to be the same here.
In terms of why the idea is actually just not that big a deal, I think the big thing is that altruistic projects often do benefit hugely from not needing to do explicit credit attribution. So that’s a real cost. (It’s also a cost for for-profit businesses, leading to lots of acrimony and bargaining losses.)
They also aren’t quite consistent with moral public goods / donation-matching, which might be handled better by a messy status quo, and I think that’s a long-term problem though probably not as big as the other issues.