https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/16/tech/billion-oyster-project/index.html … One reason businesses get what they want is that they're disproportionately likely to have someone ask the question "If what we want is a billion oysters and to get high school students to care about marine life, do we have to buy these at the same time?"
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The mistake here is thinking that the nonprofit is acting irrationally. Businesses don't face the same existential funding threat that the nonprofit does, and the public school outreach ensures the next round of funding and the project's continuation.
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Projects like this also partner with large investment banks' corporate giving/social service divisions (yes, these are a thing!), which gives psychotically rich managing directors a chance to show that they are giving pillars of society and not vampire squids.
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The Center for Applied Rationality (http://rationality.org ) teaches this as part of its class on "Goal Factoring". You're doing some action to achieve some ends. Be clear with yourself about what ends you're actually trying to achieve, and be willing to consider alternate plans.
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