A short paid 'Links At Length' post occasioned by the DSA's budget crisis, but really a compact mini-essay on movement sociology. Scott's hook is the surprise that a 57,000-member group sustains 8+ genuinely-good caucus newspapers, and that its entire budget hole is only $1-2M — which he ties back to 'Too Much Dark Money In Almonds' on how little money politics actually involves. The $360K National Harassment Grievance Officer gets a sharp steelman (its value is scandal-insurance for exactly the part of the left most likely to self-immolate over harassment). The payoff is a genuine generative reframe: movements have very different 'resource profiles' — socialism is rich in media, online agitators, and vague believers but poor in organization-joiners and desperately poor in money, while EA/rationality has the mirror-image profile (funding and commitment, weak media game). Closes with the 1700s-Ashkenazi market-minority analogy — pent-up talent in a self-contained world producing inward-focused brilliance without connection to broad money/power.

Quality 64 · Strong. Strong, lower-mid: short and casual (an explicitly experimental subscriber post), but it carries a real, portable insight — the resource-profile framing of movements — plus the apt Almonds callback and the memorable market-minority analogy, which lift it well above a bare links roundup. Held below the mid-Strong companions because it's slight and underdeveloped. 64.

Claude’s paradigm shift 44 · Moderate. Slight/Moderate edge: the movement-resource-profile reframe is a fresh, non-obvious angle at publication, but it's a casual observation building on Scott's own prior 'money is small in politics' point. 44.

Real-world impact 1 · Negligible. A paywalled musing on the DSA's finances; no concrete material reach. RWI 1.

Links At Length: Democratic Socialists' Budget Crisis