The problems with this idea are:
- People disagree about what would constitute a “rational” mission. You may think tea partiers, anarchists, and hippies are irrational but they probably think the same about you.
- Where are these funds coming from? If you’re expecting hundreds of thousands or millions to contribute small amounts then there’s the problem of concentrating them by finding intelligent people and a rational mission that hundreds of thousands or millions of people can agree on which brings us back to (1).
