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I don't get it.
Can you explain a bit how craigslist ads GENERATE money, as opposed to just redirecting it? Wouldn't you expect that a vast majority of the money collected this way would come out of some other spending?
More specifically, why is work to get this ad put on craigslist any better than working to put charity-directed ads elsewhere, including places that already have ads?
edited: this was based on a misunderstanding of the proposal. never mind!
Allow me to summarize your argument:
'<activity> is <bad / inefficient> because an <efficient market / $DEITY> would already be doing it; <efficient market / $DEITY> is not doing <activity>, so eo ipso, <activity> is <bad / inefficient>.'
It seems unlikely to me that the market is really allocating resources appropriately with regard to existential threats because of the many collective action issues.