But funding is also a function of charisma, among other variables.

I would posit that:

    funding = charisma * suitability for capitalism

so .1 charisma score of some faceless tech exec * 1B in VC funding goes alot more than 2.0 charisma score * 50k of socially oriented funding..

I wish i could favorite a comment.

You can. Click on the timestamp of the comment, and then click "favorite"

Woah thanks. Dunno why someone downvoted this lol

I'm not sure, but commenting on downvoting is likely to attract downvotes as it's explicitly against the guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Fair. But thank you for the information.