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You’ll raise more money and get more earned media making it partisan, though. Principal-agent problem.

Money, media, political footballs, lots and lots sure... but to actually solve the problem? Partisanship is an anti-pattern.

to actually solve the problem? Partisanship is an anti-pattern

Sure. The point is there are people incentivised to drive partisanship. Because people respond to it. It goes back to Plato’s criticism of Athenian democracy: demagoguery works.

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