Good points, Carl! Jonah Sinick actually made the GOTV argument to me on a prior occasion, citing your essay on the topic.
One additional consideration is that nearly everyone knows about voting, but many people don’t know about the cruelty of factory farms. This goes along with the low-hanging-fruit point.
I would not be surprised if, after tempering the figures by this outside-view prior, it takes a few hundred dollars to create a new veg year. Even if so, that’s at most 1-2 orders of magnitude different from the naive conservative estimate.
Good points, Carl! Jonah Sinick actually made the GOTV argument to me on a prior occasion, citing your essay on the topic.
One additional consideration is that nearly everyone knows about voting, but many people don’t know about the cruelty of factory farms. This goes along with the low-hanging-fruit point.
I would not be surprised if, after tempering the figures by this outside-view prior, it takes a few hundred dollars to create a new veg year. Even if so, that’s at most 1-2 orders of magnitude different from the naive conservative estimate.