[wonder_er]

> other than a philanthropic effort by the founders.

This is 95% of the reason I want to have non-trivial sums of "spending money".

That might be $1000/mo I can throw at whatever I want, or, in the case of Stripe, something that can be easily rolled into accounting books, but counts as "experimental philanthropy".

A defining feature of the modern world is that power bows before narrative and memes.

Stripe (or, rather, individuals associated with Stripe) seem to be happy to contribute in ways to making it more likely that some of their views of the world are more likely to happen, simply by amplifying certain voices, in a fair and transparent manner.

Related: it might be that you don't mean to be dismissive of cool things about founders taking efforts to be philanthropic, but it sure comes across that way.